• recall519@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    But Microsoft developed it in the first place. It’s perfectly within their rights to pull it and developers making money off of their work isn’t bad either. I love a good pitchfork to corporate, but this is honestly fine.

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      10 hours ago

      Well; companies used to get anti-trust laser canon’ed from orbit for less; but good luck with that in modern America

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        9 hours ago

        I wholeheartedly agree that monopolistic practices should be nuked instantly, but I disagree that this was ever well enforced. Microsoft got away with murder in the 90’s before they went to court and even then, feels like they got a slap on the wrist…

        I think that this particular case is very far from that, but it does start to smell the same.