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MS-hating opinions come from the old times of IE6 and practices like FUD, EEE. A lot has changed since then but this hate still shows up sometimes. There's an
by mel919 12y ago
MS-hating opinions come from the old times of IE6 and practices like FUD, EEE. A lot has changed since then but this hate still shows up sometimes.
There's an interesting article about this by Scott Hanselman titled "Microsoft Killed My Pappy": http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
- PavlovsCat 12y agoI found some of the reactions on hn and slashdot way more insightful than the blog post itself, which to me is half euphemism, half strawman, and 100% condescending. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7281283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7281283 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/02/23/1628259/microsoft-killed-my-pappy http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/02/23/1628259/microsoft-kil...
- the_ancient 12y agoThere are 2 types of programmers... Programmer that 100% embrace MS using the .NET Stack, Visual Studio, and outlaying the Tens of Thousands of Dollars need to support that development model And programmers that want to use Open Source/Open Standards... The Open Source/open Standards programmers hate MS because they MS views Open Source has a threat and the enemy (although they are starting to be less hostile over the last couple years)
- jimmaswell 12y agoSarcasm or something right