Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@niles_corder@mstdn.io Microsoft still has a strong barrier to entry in place. The monopoly is not dead and was never really remedied. @kyle@mstdn.io

@kyle I think you're missing all the corporate sales. My office develops embedded products using C language. All of our compilers are based on hardware platform, but the company as a whole has standardized on Microsoft, so every dev has an MS professional developer license. $$$ Plus any additional licenses they are paying for TFS, Teams, Office, etc. @lightweight @lunduke

@lightweight @kyle @lunduke much Like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, trying to hide the evil under the good.

@lunduke On data mining, it's hard to tell how much Microsoft is doing that off of Bing, but in the past (and maybe still in the present) they've mined data from OS installs and Office installs. Given that there's money to be made, I'd bet they're doing it with Bing as well.
Until Google gets to a place where it's they've restricted choice as much as Microsoft has, they're not even 1 times as bad as Microsoft. I can use Firefox without jumping through hoops; I can't say the same for non-Windows.

@lunduke You're wrong on a few points. As far as Google bundling browser and OS, Google isn't working from a monopoly position. The Microsoft bundling was far, far worse; not only was it restricting browser use on it's OS, it was also trying to make other browsers unusable. Granted Netscape was also notorious for using non-standard HTML (etal), but it wasn't working from a monopoly position. Google's bundling is more comparable to Apple.

@fatboy if the price is too low (for end users) then we're saying, " fuck the environment!".

I'm old enough to remember when "hardcore punk" referred to belief system, not a musical style.

80s punks know how to spot a fascist thanks to Ronnie and Mags.

I think you have to be a certain type of personality to see value in scrum. #agile is broad enough to have mass appeal, even if you know how tainted is the Agile Manifesto by 'code is king' thinking. When you wrap agile in process, it becomes decidedly less agile, and scrum is one of the heaviest processes I've encountered. (Yes, that does include CMM.)

Of course, there's always a difference between process and 'process in company <x>', but scrum seems like agile meets Taylorism.

Question authority! Politicians, police, pundits, gurus, parents, ...

If you never question, you'll never uncover the data (or lack of data) supporting the pillars of said authority.

Work instituted a policy of using 3/4 of our PTO by Sept 30. The claimed justification was to avoid having everyone take time off at the same time after COVID-19 passes.

I've been in software 30+ years, usually at big corporations. This policy is meant to reduce cash liabilities for coming layoffs in Q4 (following Q1 layoffs earlier this year). #FTFY

Good to have my friends with me.