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by lectrick 3981 days ago
> Just because the upper level of the upper level of upper level management (which is a different group of people than engineering) might have been hostile towards it years ago doesn't mean that everyone there agreed with that stance, and it doesn't mean that that management culture has persisted to the present day.

Fallacy of composition?

> Ultimately the only thing that matters are actions

Which were terrible. MAYBE they are better NOW. :P

> not the human personality traits that people project onto anthropomorphized corporations

So corporations are run by computers, I take it?

> anti-OSS

This position is literally irrational UNLESS you are a profit-making entity that considers OSS a threat to your own for-profit business model.