Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

Post by Qwertious » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:04 AM UTC

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So what? That doesn't mean they are obliged to comply with whatever you think is "the right thing"®. Yes they are. Those who own one or another monopoly-type chokepoints are required to do the right thing in the sense of not abusing their monopolies. ISP are required to connect you to the real internet rather than a walled-garden simulation, Airline are required to not to hold their passengers ransom for more at inte…

Yes, and is Apple required to open their platform to porn apps ? This is USA where private property rights are supposedly important despite government's attempts in other direction.

Post by tkubacki » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:20 AM UTC

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>On this tangent about Dart, I'm happy that Chrome people prevailed I'm not. We are sentenced for another 20+ yrs for lang with broken 'this' pointer

Just because you don't understand the JavaScript this, doesn't mean it's broken. It behaves exactly the same way every time you use it... It refers to the object that called the function (unless, of course you or someone else overrode it).

Post by yarou » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:24 AM UTC

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I think reasonable criticisms were made regarding some of those, like Pocket. However, Australis for example was a large redesign of the UI. I'm not sure how you can support an opt-out, as that would mean supporting two codebases - two different and separate UIs, at once. Regarding bundling of DRM, it isn't bundled, but it is downloaded on demand. This is a sad thing even so, but Google, Microsoft and Netflix just le…

For some reason, everybody feels like they should have a say in the direction of large Free SW projects, even if they have never contributed. Some criticisms of Mozilla are fair (even if blown out of proportion, like the Pocket issue), but one can not expect a project to make development even more complex by adding a "revert it because this one guy doesn't like it" button for each change or feature.

Post by fuj » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:35 AM UTC

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Is it harder to move to a different browser in Windows 10? I feel like you keep emphasizing how easy it is to change your browser and yet are still registering a complaint. I'm not sure what you are complaining about.

I think it is much more difficult to switch to a different default browser in Windows 10. With Chrome at least, you used be be able to set it to your default browser when is asked on first launch, with only a click or two. Now that API is deprecated and removed, and users have to click 11 times through the settings to set the default browser. Much worse. And this is after it sneakily sets Edge as the default browser…

Post by tkubacki » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 10:03 AM UTC

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tkubacki wrote: post #184

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>On this tangent about Dart, I'm happy that Chrome people prevailed I'm not. We are sentenced for another 20+ yrs for lang with broken 'this' pointer

You might be interested in ES6’s arrow functions, which change the behaviour of this to something you might approve of (you didn’t specify how you thought it was broken): http://tc39wiki.calculist.org/es6/arrow-functions/