Re:Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer su...
by smt88 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:34AM
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> Unethical part is having oems ship all their devices with proprietary apis and software that is black box.
This is nonsense. Microsoft doesn't ship most hardware running Windows, and there was never a time any of it was locked to Windows.
I installed Linux on dozens of Windows machines starting in the 90s.
By your logic, all software is unethical if it's closed-source. Apple, Samsung, and every phone manufacturer actually do put effort into locking down their hardware, so you must think they're all far more evil than MS.
This is nonsense. Microsoft doesn't ship most hardware running Windows, and there was never a time any of it was locked to Windows.
I installed Linux on dozens of Windows machines starting in the 90s.
By your logic, all software is unethical if it's closed-source. Apple, Samsung, and every phone manufacturer actually do put effort into locking down their hardware, so you must think they're all far more evil than MS.