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I myself am optimistic but some few questrions popped up: Microsoft is very proactive removing things from azure and shutting down sites as soon as they receive DMCA complaint or abuse complaint. Are they going to remove important github repos like these if they get DMCA or other complaints? https://github.com/Roy47Zhang/CSGO-Aimbot-Project (cheat for Counter strike) https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl (download from v…
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Like iOS yes, and some, but not all, Android manufacturers/phones. "Others do it too" is not a very good justification in my mind.
"Others do it too" is not a good justification of course. But his comment also fails to to explain how Microsoft is somehow more evil than the industry standard.
I don't think whether one is more evil than Apple/iOS in this regard is a good benchmark.
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If I knew that to be the end-game and if I knew it to be an informed choice on the part of consumers, yes, I'd be OK with that. My two reservations: 1. I think such a lockdown is a kind of hidden anti-competitive "dark pattern" that benefits the seller much more than it benefits the consumer by significantly lowering the the reuse/resale value of the device. One could argue it makes the device cheaper to begin with,…
I see a benefit to lockdown, which is improved safety/security for non-technical end users. Security is a difficult topic, even for IT professionals, and it is easier to secure a locked down environment for non-technical users than an open one. If you look at mobile platforms as an example, the prevalence of malware on Android compared to iOS is significant. Now for many I'm sure that trade-off is worth it, but I als…
But I'm under the impression that that is exceedingly rare and that Android has many way more pressing security concerns (e.g. the lack of driver security updates to even slightly old devices).
> The first MeeGo device came out in 2011 and won all kinds of awards and is to this date the only flagship consistently ranked better than its contemporary iPhone, while MeeGo is the only OS ever launched in smartphones to be ranked as good as - or in some reviews even better than - Apple's iPhone iOS operating system. THAT was Nokia's strategy in January 2011. Only a delusional idiot would change this.
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2016/05/the-nok...
Microsoft is not a company that ever contributed my life as a Linux user and open source contributor for years. In fact, it always made life harder for me. Here is a recent example; because Microsoft made a deal with Lenovo, now new Thinkpads are designed for just Windows. If you're a Linux user, good luck in your new adventure. People say "isn't it like IOS or Android?"; it's not. We had this freedom of using Linux,…
Linux runs on my ThinkPad just fine.
I agree with this article on the basis that if Microsoft's incentives haven't changed, then there's no reason Microsoft should be expected to behave any differently to the nineties. Arguing that they're a different company I think should require arguments that their incentives are different, and I don't see that they are.
I think for them today selling Azure is a bigger incentive than selling Windows and Office.
Their #1 competitor is AWS. They don't even mention Oracle, Apple, or really even Google.
My vote would be Mozilla. I can't think of any other company I'd want running a service for "the greater good".