Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins

Re:Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins by jodrellblank on Monday April 15, 2024 @10:16AM (#40040831)

https://companiesmarketcap.com/ - Microsoft is the number one most valuable (publicly traded) company on the planet. Microsoft has been "competing with free/libre and self-determination" for literally decades and they have been able to do it because free/libre isn't something most people care for in the slightest, and self-determination struggles to do the boring bits well - and that's most bits - or to offer any compelling integrated vision, or to compromise to make disparate tools work together for the greater good of the customer.

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Re:Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins by mistrial9 on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:26AM (#40041826)

> and they have been able to do it because free/libre isn't something most people care for in the slightest

flagrant editorialization .. there are countless battles over the course of the MSFT campaign that had serious outcomes..

a simple observation is that "most people" are children, elderly, infirm, crooked or otherwise not in the contest .. "most people" certainly do not speak English at all; they neither care nor not care as they are not meaningfully involved in a way that matters

in other words, PP is partisan gibberish

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Re:Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins by jodrellblank on Monday April 15, 2024 @12:55PM (#40042990)

> "a simple observation is that "most people" are children, elderly, infirm, crooked or otherwise not in the contest .. "most people" certainly do not speak English at all; they neither care nor not care as they are not meaningfully involved in a way that matters"

You can't dismiss "most people don't care" with "most people don't care", it's the same point.

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Re:Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins by fpgamlirfanboy on Monday April 15, 2024 @10:28AM (#40040984)

you see this kind of wishful (delusional?) thinking very frequently on hn:

> Microsoft won't ever be able ... their business model is ... have had enough.

statements made with complete certitude, as if these things aren't nebulous to begin with or in the process of being decided. it reads like the opening line to a christopher nolan superhero movie (i.e., a call to arms) rather than a position or even an opinion.

i personally don't understand what people get from the act of writing/posting such things - i mean i'd get it if we were on some hill about to rush into battle but this is an anonymous/faceless tech news forum.

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Re:Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins by DustinBrett on Monday April 15, 2024 @10:41AM (#40041191)

They are telling themselves that and they want others to believe that reality. But it's not based on what's happening in the real world.

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Re:Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins by tucnak on Monday April 15, 2024 @10:59AM (#40041440)

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