[TriLUG] Ford Drops Windows for their Sync System

matt at noway2.thruhere.net matt at noway2.thruhere.net
Mon Feb 24 14:27:40 EST 2014


> I would like nothing better than for Microsoft to go bankrupt. Before
> we all don our "life's a technocracy and I just use the best technology
> for the task at hand" hats, consider the destruction Microsoft has done
> to the marketplace:
>
> * DR DOS: What could it have become?
> * Netscape: What could it have become?
> * Wordperfect: What could it have become?
> * Proven guilty of illegal antitrust behavior
> * Microsoft's Allchin, Mundie and Balmer calling for congressional help
>   in squelching Linux
> * Secure boot, especially non-removable secure boot in ARM machines
> * Lots more dirty tricks I can't even remember
>
Lets also not forget that they were / are actively complicit in
co-operating with the surveillance state.


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