Re: Some disturbing news

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On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 01:40:31PM +0200, Louigi Verona wrote:
> The reason I bring these points up is because I feel that Microsoft is
> singled out unfairly. It is not a bad company and it has a lot of pretty
> good products, and its behavior is not governed by evil intent, but rather
> by a complex interaction of business incentives, government regulation and
> corporate structure that is necessary to manage a large company. That does
> not mean this mix of incentives does not create negative results - it does
> sometimes - but I feel that in the FLOSS community many see it as almost a
> conspiracy by someone in Microsoft to destroy the world. Which is just
> untrue.

    "The intrinsic parallelism and free idea exchange in open-source
     software has benefits that are not replicable with our current
     licensing model and therefore present a long-term developer
     mindshare threat."

They are now playing ball (gone are the days of "kill HTML by
extending it"), but trust issues remain
-F
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