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Crocodile tears, and a lot of cheap virtue signaling.

I have some friends who have worked at MSFT for a long time, about 20 years or so. There was a time when they used to talk about open source as if it was cancer (~2011). When MSFT started embracing the cancer, they didn't really up and leave. Now they are all talking about how great this open source thing is.

But even funnier was when they used to complain about Google's rampant user tracking. And then one day they added targeted ads into Windows 10. Did these people suddenly decide "enough is enough" and go and join the EFF? You already know the answer to that.



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