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Re:StackOverflow by nkassis on Saturday March 03, 2012 @01:33AM (#3659570)
What about the secure boot story http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-manda...

That's recent and it is evil. Microsoft never was completely evil they just put the mighty dollar above everything else including software quality.

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Re:StackOverflow by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday March 03, 2012 @05:32AM (#3659867)
Good answer, thanks.

I agree that MS is profit-driven. I just don't see how that puts them on a different plane from Facebook, Google, Apple, Oracle, Paypal et al.

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Re:StackOverflow by knewter on Saturday March 03, 2012 @07:39AM (#3660035)
If Google sells ads to me, or my personal information that I gave them down the road, then that affects me.

If Microsoft uses their power to force future hardware to be unable to boot linux / other FOSS OSes, then that affects me WAY MORE.

So much more that I consider such actions to be on a different plane.

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Re:StackOverflow by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday March 03, 2012 @07:41AM (#3660039)
Google and Apple are both involved in OS and hardware. Their locking decisions could be comparable, i.e. on the same plane.
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