pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agowhat tech company is the worst in you're opinion?message-squaremessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down130file-text
arrow-up175arrow-down1message-squarewhat tech company is the worst in you're opinion?pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square95fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareraubarno@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-211 months agoAny company that engages in vendor lock-in, abuses copyright of creators through generative AI for profit, tracks users for profit/advertising, or censors content and people on their platform that suggest alternative platforms. Microsoft takes all 3 points. It has created a very terrible operating system that gets preinstalled on most PCs through unfair competition, makes it harder and harder to customize it, has created GitHub Copilot that infringes copyright for GPL-licensed software and adds mandatory telemetry and Microsoft account. Additionally, Constructively criticizing Microsoft products publicly is dangerous. EDIT: removed Medium link
Any company that engages in vendor lock-in, abuses copyright of creators through generative AI for profit, tracks users for profit/advertising, or censors content and people on their platform that suggest alternative platforms.
Microsoft takes all 3 points. It has created a very terrible operating system that gets preinstalled on most PCs through unfair competition, makes it harder and harder to customize it, has created GitHub Copilot that infringes copyright for GPL-licensed software and adds mandatory telemetry and Microsoft account. Additionally, Constructively criticizing Microsoft products publicly is dangerous.
EDIT: removed Medium link