Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by TheDesolate0 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:30PM
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Yeah, but do we REALLY want M$ to control, github, npm, node, rust, python, and ...
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M"$"? 1999 called, they want their edginess back...
> M"$"? 1999 called, they want their edginess back...
You realize that we're potentially just one leadership change away from returning to the 'bad old days', right?
You're missing the big picture. In 1999, Microsoft's revenue was at least 10x that of the closest competitor.
It controlled the client (desktop) and was working on controlling the server, too.
Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc didn't exist. Amazon was much smaller and in a different niche. Apple was trying to not keel over in 2 months.
We're not a leadership change away from anything. The world has changed.
> We're not a leadership change away from anything. The world has changed.
The world has changed, but I didn't mean "the bad old days when Microsoft had a stranglehold over the industry" but just "the bad old days of an evil Microsoft". Their market power isn't relevant to whether they are a bad actor, only to how large their impact is as a bad actor.
We still have Idris and ATS.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by ampdepolymerase on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:46PM
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Considering that half of all prominent functional PL researchers are hired by Microsoft Research I won't be too confident about that.