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They do and I will give them props for that. But no company should have as much control over open source that Microsoft does.

I think people are "okay" with Microsoft because so many hackers have a problem with the data agglomeration and monetization strategy of Google and Facebook, but this Microsoft "em…

Gotta respect how Microsoft couldn't build anything the open source community wanted to work with/on so instead they used their Windows and Office monopoly to buy everyone's favori…

Americans don't believe the onus is on the whole to make sure the individual lives a happy life. We just don't have the collectivist culture the Europeans have. I think this is a g…

I agree, but the problem is that people who hate "tracking" use the same terminology. You see them all over Hacker News. To say "privacy advocates" are disingenuous is a huge under…

All that stuff is private and is never disclosed to anyone without a court order; or at least that is supposed to be how it works. Yellowpages told the public. That is the point.

I can't remember who said it, but someone once compared the outrage over how tech companies use data to Yellowpages. There used to be this free book that had everyone's name, addre…

Sure. I'd agree that futurists need room to think and invent the future; but VR, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies are not the Model T.

If the past two years have shown me anything, it's that people are becoming skeptical of the technologist mantra that "technology will make people's lives better." Not always; and …

Because I want GitHub to be agnostic and not pushing me towards anything? This was always one of the core worries about GitHub and Microsoft. Microsoft will not leave GitHub alone.…

I always believed Microsoft saw GitHub as a potential "in" for millions of developers, rather than a product that could generate revenue. This move doesn't worry me, as I'm sure Mi…

God I wish I could upvote this more than once. I almost fell out my chair laughing.

> then it is fair to say that all of the usual criticisms you see on the Internet at large, where people explain why Apple products are not good enough/too expensive/whatever for t…

The only reason Facebook is under so much fire is because Facebook is a scapegoat for entire groups of people. You have tech people who hate Facebook because Facebook is a social n…

I recently graduated from college and was heavily involved in national hackathons, and this story is just BS. It's so laughably BS that this story can be used as proof of the New Y…

Which basically confirms that the media is out to get Facebook. I mean I suspect the same thing, but I wish everyone would be upfront with their motives instead of acting like they…

> Their lack of willingness to make executive-level changes is appalling given what has come out in the last 12 months. They're under no obligation to. Firms don't (and shouldn't) …

Yeah it's really off putting. A lot of people here cannot come to grips with the fact that many tech companies are big because their customers people love their products; this incl…

The problem with that plan is that if Google were to release such a service in the EU, the EU would then fine Google for using their search monopoly to prop up a service in another…

And it's so transparent at this point. I've listened to podcasts with reporters and they lament the rise of Facebook and how "Facebook is stealing their business" through ads and a…