[pjmlp]

Hardly any different from FAANG so beloved by FOSS folks....

[throwaway79897]

I don't see the connection between Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix and free software.

[pjmlp]

Apparently everyone celebrates the stuff they put out into FOSS, whereas their agenda is hardly any different from Micro$oft.

[jen20]

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.

[pjmlp]

Yeah, however there have been other cases where the outrage was ignored, like on how the modules story went.

[jen20]

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.

[justinclift]

> people bring it up constantly.

Of course. Because the Go team ignored everyone and implemented it anyway.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

...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

[benterix]

> 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.

[subtra3t]

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.