Post #4348015

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social most of them are too young to remember Microsoft’s explicit strategy to first suffocate open source as it was a threat, and later pretend to embrace it because keeping your enemies even closer made sense to them. Now with the added benefit of automatically having your work stolen and added to their tools. As with most, they traded principles for convenience. Or never had principles to begin with. PR agencies have worked hard to erase this over the years as well as rehabilitate Gates’ image into this nerd grandpa who reads books and cares about world issues.