Comment Microsoft are good guys for opensource communities (Score 1) 398
Unlike Google, Microsoft's business model is to sell products (Cloud/Azure OS, Server OS, Datacenter OS, Desktop OS, XBox, Kinect) as opposed to sell YOU out, while Google provide *everything* for free but its not opensource friendly either! They just put their company logo on others/openosurce projects and inject their privacy profiling and data stealing modules.; Gmail, Chrome, YouTube, +1, Drive.. and every hit on Google redirects via their servers (hover over links on Google result pages).. Even RedHat provide services for profit but not rip you off!
I was watching a YouTube video and I was getting CCIE certifications ads all over it. Why? Because few hours earlier, I received the registration comformation email from CISCO on Gmail. They even parse my emails evn in my drafts and use the data! Did I sign for it? No I did not...
I would rather use Hotmail/Outlook/Bing or AOL stack on my Fedora box than let Google sell my footprints to the highest bidders, advertisers and location-based service providers. Besides SkyDrive webbased (FREE) office is much much better than Google docs.
If I would ever get a chance, I would take reviews from Linus Torvalds about both companies, how they operate and which one is more trustworthy service provider. Even MSFT is our main and very old rival from enterprise to home-user level, I am pretty sure he would have same reviews.
So, Microsoft are good guys for opensource communities. They are getting profit by selling their stuff in open market and providing free/competitive online services as well, rather conspiring against their own customers/users.
I was watching a YouTube video and I was getting CCIE certifications ads all over it. Why? Because few hours earlier, I received the registration comformation email from CISCO on Gmail. They even parse my emails evn in my drafts and use the data! Did I sign for it? No I did not...
I would rather use Hotmail/Outlook/Bing or AOL stack on my Fedora box than let Google sell my footprints to the highest bidders, advertisers and location-based service providers. Besides SkyDrive webbased (FREE) office is much much better than Google docs.
If I would ever get a chance, I would take reviews from Linus Torvalds about both companies, how they operate and which one is more trustworthy service provider. Even MSFT is our main and very old rival from enterprise to home-user level, I am pretty sure he would have same reviews.
So, Microsoft are good guys for opensource communities. They are getting profit by selling their stuff in open market and providing free/competitive online services as well, rather conspiring against their own customers/users.
