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joncruz@mstdn.social

Jon A. Cruz

No , not "rebel", but "evil 800 pound gorilla suing the life out of projects left and right"

Don't whitewash history

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doctormo@floss.social

Martin Owens inkscape

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@joncruz

"Rebel". JFC, they make it sound like Microsoft was the plucky robin hood.

"How did we go from evil empire shouting about software cancer, to evil empire in a cuddly sweater with the embroidered words 'yay-open-source' in large friendly letters" - There, fixed it for you.

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lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me

Haelwenn /элвэн/ triskell

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@joncruz Also "pioneer" after the movement has been a thing for 40+ years, plus they destroyed Netscape on the strictly open-source side of things…
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ghisvail@framapiaf.org

Ghislain Vaillant

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@joncruz De rebelles à pionniers, rien que ça. Le moins qu'on puisse dire, c'est qu'ils ne manquent pas de toupet chez Microsoft.

C'est beau le révisionnisme technologique.

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joncruz@mstdn.social

Jon A. Cruz

Reply to @ghisvail@framapiaf.org

@ghisvail true. So true.

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@joncruz Exactly. Microsoft is not an user-friendly company, it is actively exploiting its monopoly. Aka -- evil. Yes, it contributes to open-source when it make sense for them. If they pretend to be non-evil, where are Office and Windows sources?
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larsmb@mastodon.online

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

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@joncruz I think when they say "rebels" they mean "oppressive militia".

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