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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by phendrenad2 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:49PM (#31826132)
The question is why Microsoft is still viewed as anti-FOSS while Google and Facebook are viewed as pro-FOSS. Yes, your answer explains why some people might view ALL corporations as somewhat anti-FOSS. But it doesn't explain the discrepancy.
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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by car_analogy on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:35PM (#31826780)
Who are the idiots that view Google and Facebook as pro-FOSS? Did they somehow miss how Google is locking more and more OS functionality behind the Play store? Or Facebook's locked-tight Occulus?
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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by jamesgeck0 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:06PM (#31828517)
Google is pro-whatever-is-most-profitable-for-Google. Sometimes this leads to pro-FOSS behavior (they’re consistently among the top contributors to Linux), sometimes not.
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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by pjmlp on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:43AM (#31832451)
I would assert their office location, Silicon Valley corps are loved by FOSS crowd.
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