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What a silly article. Quote: “You either fit into their Windows ecosystem or they would attempt to destroy you.”
Yeah, sure.
Then they repeat the nonsense about Netscape, conveniently ignoring that it a) was being given away and b) sucked.
The article also fails to account for two complete Microsoft fails; IE and Phone (as in going from the handheld scanner market to phones.) Aside from other reasons, they just didn't care. I expect Google and Amazon to eventually head down the same rabbit hole.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: What a silly article. Quote: “You either fit into their Windows ecosystem or they would attempt to destroy you.”
Yeah, sure.
Then they repeat the nonsense about Netscape, conveniently ignoring that it a) was being given away and b) sucked.
The article also fails to account for two complete Microsoft fails; IE and Phone (as in going from the handheld scanner market to phones.) Aside from other reasons, they just didn't care. I expect Google and Amazon to eventually head down the same rabbit hole.
I could say the same about your comment. You repeat the top level ranting point mantra that IE was the problem; while ignoring that the problem wasn't that IE6 sucked, it got its high 90s percentage market share because it was much better than the buggy unstable POS that was Nutscrape 4.7. The problem was that MS declared victory around the 90% market share point stopped developing IE and disbanded the dev team beyond a handful of people who were chasing security vulnerabilities while first Mozilla and then Google continued developing the web and created browsers that left IE in the dust.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That was my badly made point; Microsoft lost dominance in two areas due to their apathy. It's interesting to me how many dominant companies lose their position in a similar way. Yes, there may be stiff competition, but the refusal or inability to adapt plays a large role. Sears comes to mind.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Yes, there may be stiff competition, but...
... When a company reaches a certain size, with the inevitable percentage of employees who are dog-@rse useless at their jobs, everyone stops worrying about "external competition", because all their time is focussed on the competition for their jobs from dog-@rsed incompetent employees who are better at sucking up to the boss.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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IBM today closed on its whopping $34 billion acquisition Red Hat, bringing together tools and expertise in their quest to become the world’s top hybrid cloud provider, while providing customers greater access to open-source technologies. But I thought red and blue made purple?
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How long before the temptation to meddle becomes too strong?
Less snarky, what will happen to Fedora and CentOS when things don't quite turn out to be sunshine, rainbows and unicorns?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: How long before the temptation to meddle becomes too strong?
It's IBM. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. Maybe by the end of the year? Some managers might have to learn what they just bought.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Some managers might have to learn what they just bought.
Of course... if not they might have a good idea and improve it instead of breaking it up
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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There is an essential part of consumerist culture that prefers buying something to doing something. I felt it was important you learned this shocking and radical message
Yeah, very slow news day and I'm panicking.
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I know a lot of developers who get a MacBook and then immediately put Windows on it (boot camp) and then almost exclusively use Windows.
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I remember doing that fondly - before they ruined the MacBook. 
TTFN - Kent
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"I expect this will be fixed in a future board revision," says co-creator. The 'C' stands for 'Close'
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Most people buy the official raspberry power supply with their Pi4's. This is kind of a non-issue for most of its users.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's how I felt about it as well. I wonder who it was that noticed this "problem" in the first place? My guess is Mac devs, as they are the only ones I can think of with many spare USB-C cables lying around.
Plus, they'd be too broke to pay for the official cable.
TTFN - Kent
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Security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh has publicly disclosed a serious zero-day vulnerability for the Zoom video conferencing app on Macs. I'm sure the Mac folk don't mind sharing
A little surprised (and glad) it's not cross-platform.
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Every student deserves the chance to explore, advance, and succeed in computer science It's never too early to get them hooked
OK, there is definitely a 'too early', but these look to be decent starting points for kids. And kids-adjacent.
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My son is already doing MIT Scratch things and having a wonderful time. Sans Google. 
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We can call it Spy School
Intelligence agencies worldwide will set eyes on the graduates
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Can you also get special black google shirts, and armbands with "we work like lightning" insignias?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The ICO wants to fine the airline £183 million So, they were serious about this GDPR stuff?
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A new £10 fee (lets call it compliance) per flight will recoup this fine within 6 months
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Forgot the "Not a joke" emoji.
(A friend once found that for one flight of his from the US to France, the various fees and taxes were more than 50% of the ticket.)
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I'm waiting for the announcement of a "Rest of the world announces 'What are you crazy?' tax" for flights entering France.
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