chonglibloodsport comments on the myth of the good tech giant

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I guess not many people remember that Microsoft was convicted of antitrust violations against Netscape (which effectively destroyed that command).

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[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Microsoft nowadays is one of the evil companies. Microsoft back in the day was the evil company.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

What about Monsanto (Roundup) and Philip-Morris (lol)? You could probably include Dole. As well as the East India Company.

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[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Fair point. Has meant IT companies.

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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The video that started this clippy campaign mentioned that. The message is that those sort of transgressions seem so minor compared to what companies bot only do, but get away with now

Clippy was hated at the time, but an annoying useless assistant that doesn't send anything to the Internet, let alone your personal data, seems like a dream now.

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