• sibachian
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      i infuriates me how microsoft is stealing tax money and has held a global monopoly for decades. especially when there are free alternatives. it isn’t even legal for a foreign private company to hold monopoly and extract tax wealth. most other software they use follow these rules, so why not windows/office?

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          that too, that just further adds to the issue. hell, industry standards like adobe literally only exist because they didn’t pursue pirates (profit came from business license) and the adobe suite was the only tools people knew at the time due to being available for “free” to home users. a statement which the CEO admitted, but then had to redact. i assume by pressure from the music industry, sony’s rootkit model, etc. at the time.

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        Imagine the software that could have been written with the money that microsoft sucked up into their shitty OS

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          and contribute to society/the world while doing it.

          so many opportunities has been lost because of capitalism. it’s not like private companies ever take risks either, they use the freely available research and development we paid for with our taxes and then sell it back to us as a product.

          nope. open source everything. it’s the only way to save the planet.

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      The main problem there was that the employees weren’t taken along enough.

      Somewhere I heard that the project was suffocated by bureaucracy, whether intentionally or not I don’t know. But I can imagine that the lobbying of Microsoft supported bureaucratic behaviour. I wish them all the best, but the history of governmental IT projects is a story of failure.