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With all the Microsoft Recall stuff saturating the Fediverse right now (my feed at least)... It seems a good time to remember that Microsoft has always had form as an unethical organisation... I commemd to you this detailed (and enjoyable) account of their first decade or so: https://web.archive.org/web/20051013072349/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html
@lightweight There's two things I dislike about that article: 1) it implies that Microsoft was responsible for the home market, because of BASIC. This is a specious argument, because they weren't the onlyh suppliers of BASIC and other languages existed. e.g., I encountered Fortran as a teenager before I did BASIC.
and 2) the article totally ignores Microsoft's anti-competitive monopoly and keeps claiming that marketing kept them in the forefront; #bullshit
@lwriemen huh, good points!