[belZaah]

Thus is the crime of the communist Russia: forcing millions into hard labor to die for progress yet squandering innovation for ideological reasons. But the same mechanism is there in, say, Microsoft. To get the attention of leadership, your idea must have 9 zeros at the very least. If it doesn’t, you either leave M$ or stay there and abandon your idea. But a 7-zero idea is a pretty expensive one to be abandoned.

[johncole]

I don’t think Microsoft is sending people to the gulag because they didn’t have enough zeroes behind their idea.

[type0]

Their digital Gulag is called Windows and they're forcing most PC users to this abomination of operating system.

[AnimalMuppet]

Walking away from Windows means using Linux or Mac. Walking away from the actual gulag was considerably harder.