| ▲ | arccy 2 months ago | |
Microsoft has never been pro open source, yet so many devs fell for their marketing lies. | ||
| ▲ | genewitch 2 months ago | parent | next [-] | |
Walmart used to claim they supported US businesses. A lot of people remember the ads and the native ads, especially in southern California when Wal-Mart was trying to make inroads there in the late 90s. Walmart. Bringing back home. ™ The CEO even said the quiet part out loud in one of the commercials in the early 90s, roughly "we'll buy American products, unless they're lesser quality or more expensive" and trailed off, and the editors back then weren't as tuned in to corpo-speak or something. Of course the countries with more lax environmental regulations and worker protections will have a cheaper product; the entire thing was a sham from the beginning. | ||
| ▲ | wilsonnb3 2 months ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Microsoft is pro open source, it's just that they use it as a means rather than an end which trips up a lot of people who view open source differently. Its a tool they use to encourage adoption of their developer tools and get people to spend more money in Azure, not a philosophical stance. | ||