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First of all, for-profit companies optimize for profit, not truthfulness.
> Or you will always prefer to remember the dark times of CEOs past and a workforce that is probably half gone from those days?
Second, Microsoft has a 45-years long history of making false promises, paying large bribes and attacking open source.
And endless use of EEE. And palladium / trusted computing / secure boot.
And adversarial interoperability. And forced obsolescence.
It hasn't changed.
> You want them to change their name, open source Windows?
Nobody expects Microsoft to be consistent with their own claims.
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First of all, for-profit companies optimize for profit, not truthfulness.
> Or you will always prefer to remember the dark times of CEOs past and a workforce that is probably half gone from those days?
Second, Microsoft has a 45-years long history of making false promises, paying large bribes and attacking open source.
And endless use of EEE. And palladium / trusted computing / secure boot.
And adversarial interoperability. And forced obsolescence.
It hasn't changed.
> You want them to change their name, open source Windows?
Nobody expects Microsoft to be consistent with their own claims.