**Mainebot 0.7.1b** @Mainebot · Jun 30, 2018, 16:27

**Mainebot 0.7.1b** @Mainebot · Jun 30, 2018, 16:27

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Microsoft has done a lot more good for the casual consumer than its "obvious" alternatives.

**Mainebot 0.7.1b** @Mainebot · Jun 30, 2018, 16:28

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Microsoft is the only market entity that actually takes risks on design for both hardware and software intended for a normal user.

**Mainebot 0.7.1b** @Mainebot · 2018-06-30T16:40:08Z

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Microsoft gets a lot of hate, and some of it is deserved, but a lot of it comes from years of habituating that hate.

How many FOSS communities have been characterized as disinterested, distant, and unwilling to help despite being filled with good, genuinely caring people?

Apple users being strawmanned as hipsters with more money than brains.

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**avocado goblin** @a_breakin_glass@cybre.space · Jun 30, 2018, 16:41

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@Mainebot
>disinterested

you mean uninterested

**Business Chronomancer** @c25l@weirder.earth · Jun 30, 2018, 17:06

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@Mainebot I would go further on the Foss one. I am always amazed that people expect Foss maintainers/leaders/bdfls, who started these projects for nothing and were not selected for management skills, to be good at those, and constantly fail to learn that they're often flawed (and now successful) people, and they have no interest in fixing their baggage. eg. this, emacs, python, Linux, whatever esr wrote, etc.

**Mainebot 0.7.1b** @Mainebot · Jun 30, 2018, 17:09

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@c25l it's an unfair set of expectations that people constantly reinforce inside their social universe, empowered by a larger community willing to aggressively punish people who don't stick to the script.

**Business Chronomancer** @c25l@weirder.earth · Jun 30, 2018, 17:40

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@Mainebot preach

**Mainebot 0.7.1b** @Mainebot · Jun 30, 2018, 17:06

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Anyways the point of all this is, evil aside, I would rather see a grossly over-wealthy company spend a fortune taking risks on hardware, overcoming prior failures and empowering disabled gamers over a grossly over-wealthy company hoard a fortune and utterly refuse to take a single risk.

**Michcioperz** @Michcioperz@m.atm.pl · Jun 30, 2018, 17:07

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@Mainebot Well this one is a good point yes