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by yjftsjthsd-h 972 days ago
> Have you noticed that MS mostly stopped using EEE,

No, I haven't. Notice that MS now loves Linux... provided you run it on Azure or as a component of Windows (WSL). They adopted Chrome...'s rendering engine and then abused their desktop OS market share to shove the result down people's throats. They don't have the leverage they once enjoyed, but the approach didn't change, at least not in general.
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pjmlp 972 days ago
Hardly any different from FAANG so beloved by FOSS folks....
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throwaway79897 972 days ago
I don't see the connection between Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix and free software.
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pjmlp 972 days ago
Apparently everyone celebrates the stuff they put out into FOSS, whereas their agenda is hardly any different from Micro$oft.
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jen20 971 days ago
In the case of Go quite recently, there was such outrage about opt-out telemetry that the proposal was walked back, and implemented (correctly) as opt-in instead.
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pjmlp 971 days ago
Yeah, however there have been other cases where the outrage was ignored, like on how the modules story went.
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jen20 971 days ago
Modules isn't any worse than NuGet for privacy. Neither are good, but it's hard to say the outrage was "ignored" - people bring it up constantly.
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yjftsjthsd-h 971 days ago
...yes, those are also poorly regarded:

- Facebook honestly mostly seems orthogonal to open source concerns

- Apple most certainly does get criticized for the incompatibility of their App Store with copyleft licenses, and the way they deliberately avoid GPLv3

- Amazon is the poster child for bad interactions with the open source ecosystem

- Netflix... honestly I don't know of any problems aside from DRM (and I'm pretty sure that's imposed on them, not really their choice)

- Google is absolutely criticized on a regular basis for how they interact with the wider community

Though of course even if your claim were correct, it wouldn't really matter; whataboutism is a bad argument because two bad actors isn't zero bad actors

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benterix 972 days ago
> Hardly any different from FAANG so beloved by FOSS folks....

I don't see what you mean. I'm not sure about "FOSS folks" but at least in the HN community FAANG has little sympathy.

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subtra3t 972 days ago
I think they were referring to how react, etc is looked upon favorably by HN readers while .net, etc is criticized, most of which is invalid.
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