Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
by Retra on Saturday November 15, 2014 @09:44PM
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> Do you disagree with the concept of voting with your wallet?
That concept is fantastically distopian. The concept "voting with your wallet" is practically abject propaganda. We have a word for this already and it's not "voting:" it's "purchasing" or "bribery."
>How else can you get companies to listen to your needs?
With words. The very thing you are using right here.
How else can you get companies to listen to your needs? And my needs as a developer and a user are simple - I need my privacy, an open web and a healthy open-source ecosystem. And I'll vote with my wallet and I'll bitch against any company that has a problem with that - and I'll also encourage alternatives that cater to my needs.
The world would be a much better place if all people behaved like this IMHO - oh, so are the shareholders a company's top priority? Not my problem.