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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user