This mirrors my view of Microsoft 100%… their “success" held back the computer industry by about 10 years. I remember my fancy multitasking Commodore Amiga with sound and colour and GUI and a decent processor architecture… while MS and PCs had DOS and segmented memory, ugh.
They have a track record of ruining nearly everything they touch. Regarding GitHub, I vastly prefer Mercurial anyway, so I’ve never been a GitHub fan. (In the end it doesn’t much matter though, it’s just betamax is better than VHS all over again…) Cheers, Scott > On Jun 6, 2018, at 3:46 AM, Tim Boudreau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Honestly, when I think of Microsoft, I think of the immeasurable harm they > did to progress in computing. There was going to be a PC on every desktop > regardless. They just ensured that PC ran a horrifically flawed, > vulnerable, broken by design OS. Convenient as it is, I think you can > trace a big chunk of the rapid explosion of mobile computing to people > using a non-windows device for the first time and thinking "OMG, you mean > viruses, malware, ransomware, antivirus software that spies on you and blue > screens of death aren't the way all computing *simply **is*? You mean that > isn't *normal*?!" How much further along would pretty well *everything* be > if millions hadn't been trapped in a world of 32 bits, synchronous I/O, > backdoors, wide-open OS-wide configuration databases, never mind it being a > black box, for an extra decade?
