jabjoe

They should be made to open Office. Too much is in those formats for a for profit company to own the reference implementation. Let alone for that reference implementation to be closed.

Reading about this "standard" makes me angry every time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML

Google and Apple and Amazon and Facebook are all tech bastards too. But Microsoft has not gone away or been solved.

Monopoly is a super profitable and comfortable position, but it's when capitalism fails.

....wish I hadn't looked up vore....

I've been in tech for over twenty years. About half of it in games (first half) and half Linux embedded stuff. What I've seen is it's hard to recruit good people. The first job to get is the hardest as you have no experience or references. I know I've been lucky, falling in my feet multiple times, but so has everyone I entered industry with. A few now have their own companies. I've had to let a few people go myself and I hate it, but I knew they'd be fine, and they have been.

This is tech workers. They won't be in survival mode. They are highly employable and always have options. I think most people outside tech will have other employment options. Though if you don't, your screwed in multiple other ways on top of has bosses.

Not sure about that. I thought he was a nob before it was cool. He was claiming too much engineer credit for himself since forever. No humility or crediting others.

I think they are more like Musk. It's obvious if you look he's a wrong'un. It's not possible to stay lying about yourself, especially when the ego get boosted so much. The mask slips.

I think that is lack of competition regulation.

I'm sure that happens. But this why you look how long people have worked at places and get a reference.

But you don't stay working for them. You move on. Then they find no one wants to work for them and they spend their whole time complaining they can't get the staff. Psychos are bad news for a company long run.

There is a book about it, "Snakes in Suits".

I'm not sure about that. Nobody wants to work with psychos. Work is too much of your short life.

MS's patent protection racket and monopoly practices continue. They have had no conversion, they are just adapting. Buying GitHub and LinkedIn to stay relevant. WSL and VSCode are to slow the bleed of developers away from their platform and tools. Azure Linux is because they have to. They are under pressure by the market and because all the bright young things coming in will all want Linux. They are still a closed source company trying to get people stuck into their webs and paying.

Convicted monopolist. Slimy and dishonest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRelVFm7iJE

His direct influence is in numerous places in the Horrorween Documents.

Screw that guy.