Microsoft is often described as evil on HN.
What has Microsoft done to deserve being labeled as evil?
Why is Microsoft Evil?
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#2"Microsoft Loves Linux" now but before that they stated, "Linux is a Cancer" and treated it as such:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
Things have changed since then:
https://www.idginsiderpro.com/article/3584911/how-microsoft-...
You really had to be there to understand the emotions involved. It was like a real life version of Star Wars with the Rebel Alliance (GNU / Linux / BSD et al.) against the Galatic Empire (Microsoft).
People protested and made it into a social movement that has since become mainstream:
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#3Microsoft is a company that in the past tried very hard to use their dominance in certain markets take over other markets. It’s hard for young people to understand how powerful Microsoft was as a company in the mid 90s.
Re: Why is Microsoft Evil?
#4>> What has Microsoft done to deserve being labeled as evil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
Re: Why is Microsoft Evil?
#5They also used public standards and added propietary incompatible standards on it.
outlook 365 requires changes to use smtp and imap that are not always compatibel with standard software. They "standartised" their xml based document standard (docx, ...) despite the open document standard already beeing standartised and impossible to implement for other developers except microsoft(modern office files are incompatible with the standard).
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#6We want our computing to be free. Monopolistic practices threatened that.
Re: Why is Microsoft Evil?
#7They also used public standards and added propietary incompatible standards on it. outlook 365 requires changes to use smtp and imap that are not always compatibel with standard software. They "standartised" their xml based document standard (docx, ...) despite the open document standard already beeing standartised and impossible to implement for other developers except microsoft(modern office files are incompatible…
> xml based document standard
And how violently ugly are those file structures. (Compared, e.g., to .fodt)
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#8Microsoft is a company that in the past tried very hard to use their dominance in certain markets take over other markets. It’s hard for young people to understand how powerful Microsoft was as a company in the mid 90s.
Microsoft bundled apps like Media Player and Internet Explorer to take over markets of QuickTime and Netscape web browser.
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#9Microsoft is a convicted monopolist.
Other companies might have a monopoly on Web ads, but Microsoft has been convicted. That's amazing. And evil.
Re: Why is Microsoft Evil?
#10No