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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by s2g on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:42PM (#17222400)
and yet the response to anything by microsoft is reminders of EEE, while google gets praised for blatantly awful abuses of power.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jorams on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:05PM (#17222550)
> google gets praised for blatantly awful abuses of power

Do you have some examples of that? The first things that come to mind are AMP and related announcements, which were not received particularly positively here on HN.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by falsedan on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:33PM (#17222750)
mil drone stuff, Reader, the worst customer technical support…

Cue followup 'Actually these are all extremely good + business-savvy decisions for big G since' posts.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jorams on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:05PM (#17230386)
The key part I quoted was

> google gets praised

None of the things you list are things Google is praised for.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by TheCabin on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:50PM (#17222450)
True.

My days of google fan-boy-ism are long over :-/

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