• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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    I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.

    Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that’s at least as good.

    They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.

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      26 minutes ago

      How long until they successfully lobby the US government to make FOSS illegal somehow

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      On a personal basis that works, but they are so corporately entrenched that their products getting shitier matters quite little.

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        Seriously this, it would take something like the PCI or SOX declaring Windows outside of compliance for Microsoft to die from bad business decisions in the US. Although German gov switching to Linux starts treading a path through