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If Microsoft didn't have a decades-long record of pulling shit like this, they might get the benefit of the doubt.
Microsoft has been consistently "stupid" for a very long time about this one particular thing.
Emphasis mine. Incompetence on Microsoft's part is not an adequate explanation for this latest action matching a pattern of other actions designed to antagonize FOSS users.
Stupidity doesn't adequately explain the number of times they have done this. I'm surprised it's even a headline anymore.
I hate this phrase.
A lot of the time, people (and especially monopolistic, tax-dodging, $3.2 trillion multinationals with a long history of anti-competitive behaviour) really are just cunts.
Time and time again, we see big companies doing anything they can to destroy competition, mislead customers, etc.
Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.
stupidity is a once-off
malice is a pattern
and even if it’s not malicious, a pattern of stupid action needs to be stopped just as much as malicious action
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It's not like MS coined EEE or anything...
In business and politics "malice" and "stupidity/incompetence" are one and the same.
Wow, they must be really stupid over at Microsoft!