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[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 85 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Throughout the 90s Microsoft was the company equivalent of a serial killer, so Gates had to really step up his public relations. Goldfish-brained liberal techies ate it up.

[โ€“] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Many are new blood having no idea what Microsoft used to be. Add to that the modern good-guy MS face, funding (usefu for theml) open source and all that, and it gets difficult to convey how things used to be.