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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by majewsky on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:47AM (#18138430)
> The problem is that most of the IT industry no longer views users as customers, but as cattle to feed ads to and harvest data from.

FTFY

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by dragonwriter on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:53AM (#18138463)
In both cases the views are largely correct; end users aren't the main or motivating purchasers for lots of the industry, their employers are, so the users literally are not the customers, and often have interests poorly aligned with the actual customers.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by greenhatman on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:26AM (#18138606)
Why I love Linux more every day.
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:47AM (#18140364)
Linux's incentives are also not oriented towards the user, unfortunately, they just don't have the profit motive to treat users like cattle.
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