Comment by nkassis
15 years ago
What about the secure boot story http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-manda...
That's recent and it is evil. Microsoft never was completely evil they just put the mighty dollar above everything else including software quality.
Good answer, thanks.
I agree that MS is profit-driven. I just don't see how that puts them on a different plane from Facebook, Google, Apple, Oracle, Paypal et al.
If Google sells ads to me, or my personal information that I gave them down the road, then that affects me.
If Microsoft uses their power to force future hardware to be unable to boot linux / other FOSS OSes, then that affects me WAY MORE.
So much more that I consider such actions to be on a different plane.
Google and Apple are both involved in OS and hardware. Their locking decisions could be comparable, i.e. on the same plane.