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  • Setting aside the fact that legally a corporation actually is a person, there is such a thing as a corporate culture, and a corporate ethos.

    Let’s start with an old microsoft ethos: embrace extend extinguish

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

    Now don’t try to tell me I made it up, there’s enough evidence for it to have its own wiki page.

    Similarly there’s FUD an approach they most certainly didnt invent but did an excellent job of weaponising to a fine art.

    And so on and so forth. Those of us who have been around a while know the true shape of it, and that leopard has never changed its spots.

    I got my MCSE on NT4 back when CNE was much more respected. I still work in IT so yes I too use both windows & linux, that doesn’t stop me having a clear eyed view of them.

    They’re also not the worst by a long chalk, google, meta, palantir are all far less principled and far more detrimental to society.

    M$ still arent good though, and its woven into their culture