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Bud it’s 2024 you can inherit anything you want from Trump to Biden, but it’s literally the end of his term. Trumps to blame for Covid. Happened on his watch. Bidens to blame for the economy. Happened on his watch.
Some nice points you make are not lost on me. But there comes a time where you have to take things at face value.
If systems begin to drop support for the previous technology you run into incompatibility problems across the board
This is my first time hearing stakeholder primacy as a term. Can you elaborate on what the grounds you’d sue the stakeholders on? Ie what is the legal premise that you’re proposing you can hold them accountable for?
I agree with this and I’m glad we have graphene OS at the same time for the moments when I no longer want this to be the default option.
I hope to see more reasonable takes like this - weighted with reality, not just reinforcing what people want to hear.
How is the west white supremecy? You sound like a racist when you say that and it hurts your credibility, especially in a larger conversation about some of the other points you mention.
Go walk into a tech building in the west in the USA and you’d find that white people are a fraction of the workers present, and even then it’s European transplants also in the office. It is unironically very diverse. Teams I worked on were not strictly white people or majority white. And taking it even further - why be racist in the first place?
IMO all I’ve seen are massive layoffs in tech so, I’m all set with what Biden is offering. There was no attempt to fix the actual problem with student loans which is that they’re a broken system, he just forgave a portion of the people who had issues today, which means we’ll have the same issues later again.
Trump was only better in the sense that at the time his economy was great to get a job in, in tech, in the US.
What are we even doing man. When I read headlines like this it’s just embarrassing to be a US citizen.
They’re tasked with infinitely growing their stock price. That is a suicide job. Working big tech in the USA sucks right now because there’s no concept of just maintaining and maintaining something well, unless you’re Valve and steam
And I think these parts are fair to say but they lose me within the first few minutes by jumping to disassociated bold points like the cloud to windows being proprietary.
We need well reasoned arguments that are cohesive and the moment you lose that, you basically damage your own cause.
Again though it's a discussion. I'm just saying that it's disappointing and quickly frustrating that this is how things get framed: with facts and arguments that are leading. Don't show your hand. Let people arrive at these things as a logical conclusion based on a pile of evidence.
Hey thanks for posting this. I've bookmarked it to watch within the hour.
I'm interested to see if these are really businesses under threat from Microsoft or if it's businesses looking to eliminate competition from USA and push their own products. I'm not a fan of MULAFAANG pushing a monopoly but I'm also realistic that politicians will always be motivated to do what politicians do best.
EDIT: Not even that far into the video yet...So I live in the USA and I've visited a Microsoft campus when I was in Washington. And the premise of what is being presented is laughable. I said as a system administrator back in 2015 that going into the Microsoft cloud azure was bullshit and not a good idea, and turns out today that is still the answer. If these departments wanted to use Linux that is an internal decision not one reflective of Microsoft. LLDAP (easy managed LDAP service) exists in FOSS. So does Mailcow. Everyone loves to masterbate to how "bad these companies are", dude you CHOSE them. There are parts of Microsoft's footprint that are good like their ability to staff teams to work on security, keeping NPM, github, and pypi safe. But they also have a lot of malware-like components in their services/OS that collect data in the same way a virus would.
I just don't like this premise of purchasing someone's product and then vilifying that product as if they had no other choice. I understand that its not entirely with that intent, its more to start a conversation about it, but damn does it ring that way when I saw self hosting in 2015 & IT departments as the answer.
EDIT2: Why are talking about the cloud, then pivoting to saying that Microsoft won't release the source code for Windows? Lol. These are two separate topics, and the author of the video didn't attempt to pose it as one. I am disappointed by the author to present the information that is reasonable and understanding of both their own culture and display a lack of effort in their own administration to use existing FOSS products. No one has a gun to your head. I've migrated between 5 different clouds and solutions over the last few years for my own company's infra.