pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Asklemmy · 1 year agowhat tech company is the worst in you're opinion?message-squaremessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down131file-text
arrow-up183arrow-down1message-squarewhat tech company is the worst in you're opinion?pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Asklemmy · 1 year agomessage-square101fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareraubarnolinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-21 year agoAny company that engages in vendor lock-in, abuses copyright of creators through generative AI for profit, tracks users for profit/advertising, or censors content and people on their platform that suggest alternative platforms. Microsoft takes all 3 points. It has created a very terrible operating system that gets preinstalled on most PCs through unfair competition, makes it harder and harder to customize it, has created GitHub Copilot that infringes copyright for GPL-licensed software and adds mandatory telemetry and Microsoft account. Additionally, Constructively criticizing Microsoft products publicly is dangerous. EDIT: removed Medium link
Any company that engages in vendor lock-in, abuses copyright of creators through generative AI for profit, tracks users for profit/advertising, or censors content and people on their platform that suggest alternative platforms.
Microsoft takes all 3 points. It has created a very terrible operating system that gets preinstalled on most PCs through unfair competition, makes it harder and harder to customize it, has created GitHub Copilot that infringes copyright for GPL-licensed software and adds mandatory telemetry and Microsoft account. Additionally, Constructively criticizing Microsoft products publicly is dangerous.
EDIT: removed Medium link