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[–] 2681720? 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Embrace, extend, extinguish, MS has been at this for years.

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[–] 2676323? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Isn't it bologna?

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[–] 2676372? [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

http://grammarist.com/usage/baloney-bologna/

Bologna refers to a type of sausage made of finely ground meat that has been cooked and smoked. Baloney is nonsense. It is an early 20th-century American coinage derived from bologna. It may also be influenced by blarney, which in one of its definitions means nonsense or deceptive talk.

Our reference sources differ on whether baloney and bologna are homophones in English. Some say both should be pronounced “baloney,” while others say bologna should be pronounced like the Italian city, Bologna (“boloan-ya”), where the sausage originates. But everyone agrees that the two spellings have different meanings.

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[–] odinist 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Neat, TIL.

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[–] 2676408? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You should have asked the oed

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[–] Octopork 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

May this also have something to do with "Microsoft makes new Linux Distro" and reports on the statements that they love linux are so easy to report on for the general consumer and average reporter?

Most people won't understand any of the finer details, if you started talking about the patents and lawsuits and what they do at best you would get a blank stare from your average joe, that same person is also not likely to read any articles involving that stuff.

Same can be said for many reporters, "hey Microsoft made a linux thingy, thats that competing computer system all the nerds love" coupled with the statements from microsoft that is the limits of their understanding, they write the article and then get to work on the next one they need to write without looking into it too much more.

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[–] 2676238? [S] ago 

The internet has rendered instant reporting more lucrative (clickbait) than any in-depth article, so you're right on about that. Now the audience is ordinary people who might click headlines on a wide variety of things at a superficial level instead of writing for people who have a special interest in the topic.

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[–] ximian 0 points 16 points (+16|-0) ago 

Microsoft has for long tried every tactic in the book for decades at end to bury open source, called it cancer, and vote-stuffed organisations like the ISO to favor closed source document format for public. I'll never trust Microsoft until they've at least shown good behavior for a decade to gain some trust. Companies like Microsoft may provide jobs to thousands of people, however its the open source software that's actually providing some hope in these days of mass privacy incursions by private entities , and supposedly democratic governments snooping on their own people.

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[–] skidmark-steve 0 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Until Windows can read an EXT4 file system out of the box, its all bullshit. I'll be lenient and not demand exotic file systems like Btrfs or Xfs.

EDIT: And to the people who believe that patents influence innovation, how innovative was it when all those android devices were stuck using FAT32 (with a 4 GB file size limit) because Microsoft would not support anything else until exfat was ready? The single innovative aspect of this patent crap is to find new ways to fleece the consumer and manipulate the market.

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[–] tame ago 

Maybe this is a dumb question but why couldn't the Android devices just use Ext3 or something?

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[–] Stoeicijn 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Probably because most people with android phones use windows on their desirous m desktop or laptop and not Linux. If android used ext3 their computer would not be able to talk to their phone.

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[–] 2674640? 5 points 23 points (+28|-5) ago 

I think the problem here is we consider 'Microsoft' to be a single entity like a person with feelings and direction and an over all goal.

This is a company who's sole purpose is to make money, they will sue anyone they have to if it is a profitable idea. So Microsoft being a company to make money may indeed love linux, but that would never stop them from suing to make more money.

my point is that we anthropomorphize companies to be people, but they aren't. They are soulless monstrosities driven by profit alone despite the good intentions of individuals that make up the company.

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[–] dayofthehope 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The purpose of a corporation should not be to extract wealth through any means regardless of whether they are ethical or unethical. This is parroted all over the internet but it is not true.

The origin of this notion is the Talmud. In there it says that the Jews are supposed to amass wealth from others regardless of the ethics involved.

Some Jewish economist (the name escapes me, sorry), he expressed this notion in modern economic terms and using the word "corporations" instead of Jews, but the idea is the same.

It may be beneficial for Jews wanting to amass even more wealth, but it should not be this way.

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[–] weezkitty 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

The purpose of a corporation should not be to extract wealth through any means regardless of whether they are ethical or unethical. This is parroted all over the internet but it is not true.

In a capitalist system, that is exactly the purpose of a corporation

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[–] 404_SLEEP_NOT_FOUND 0 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago 

Companies are just the tools used to extract wealth. Look at the share holders for responsibility.

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[–] 2674993? [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

insightful