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This is two gang bands fighting on the street, there is no good guy here. Google is so annoying trying constantly to push you to use Chrome when you visit their websites


"Their" is an important word here. Google's website nags you when you visit Google's website. Microsoft's browser nags you when you visit Google's website.


Using Microsoft's operating system.


On my computer.


Oh, is it? Just give M$ couple more years.


If it's your computer, you can just install an OS that doesn't do this. There are many alternatives.


Tell it to the bank that owns my mortgage. Many people, including me, have no choice but to run Windows.


You bought a house and now the bank demands you use Windows? What?

Assuming this is about "paying the bills" and using Windows at work; this is your employer/customer causing this issue for you by demanding Windows. Not Microsoft.


So, are you hiring?


They aren't just fighting each other, they are fighting you.


They're not fighting in the street. Microsoft is using your house as a staging ground and requisitioning your belongings.


You misspelled "commandeering," but, yeah.


Are you sure you didn't misspell "requisitioning"?


Pretty sure, yep. We would also have accepted "hijacking" or "dragooning."

"Requisitioning" implies that you still have the choice to refuse or disobey.


One data point. I have a s20 ultra since November 2020 (first time Samsung owner), it still feels like new, it's the first phone I've had that hasn't shown its age.


> Most tech companies won't touch it with a 20-foot pole.

This!, in my experience lawyers will deny the use of AGPL software, even when there is no risk (from my point of view). Many companies have already a list of blessed licenses, and AGPL is not part of the ones I'm aware of.


This phenomenon is mostly just GPL-phobia. Microsoft spent billions in the 90s to convince corporate legal that the GPL is "viral" in ways it is not. You could simply rename the license to something other than the letters G-P-L and this would go away.


> it requires special personality types to handle it.

I agree, and I don't see a problem with it.

> [...], but aren’t useful for general policies.

offices are just optimizing for the loudest and more social people, this is a consequence of managers tending to be like that, I don't think that approach is useful for general policies neither.


We need the dude who prosecuted Aaron Swartz here. This sucks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz


Ah, early players trying to put barriers for new actors, nothing like a regulated market for the ones who donate money to politicians.


and if you play this card correctly can become yet another tourists attraction for NYC


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