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How on earth did anyone believe Microsoft was different this time?


They used Emojis and printed "Microsoft <3 Open Source" on posters for conferences, so clearly they really had changed...


How on earth did anyone believe Microsoft was different this time?

There's a whole generation on HN who came up after Microsoft's worst phase, and have spent the last five years defending MS on this very forum.

They're convinced that any bad thing Microsoft does is a "boomer" grudge, and will defend MS to the end.

I hope I'm never so weak-minded that I tie my identity and allegiance to a trillion-dollar company. Or any company that I haven't founded, for that matter.


End of the day, PR works. Even in peak “friendly” Microsoft, they were hard nosed and noxious to negotiate with.




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