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absurdity of the article aside, the premise of it ignores the fact that probably about 95% of their audience doesn't care about this issue.

They are too big and the corporate contracts are too ingrained in society. They won't lose anything meaningful over these terrible anti-consumer decisions because they don't care about individual consumers. As long as the bigger ticket contracts are in place, their income is totally safe.

one can only hope!

wow haven't seen antipope in a long time

They need to stop polishing a turd. It was a great OS when it was windows 98, but at this point they've just tried to shove so much iOS and Linux into it that it's a shadow of its former self.

They need a shadow team to make a new product that isn't windows and is basically just a kde Linux distro.

No: once a corporate-culture gets sufficiently divorced-from-reality, then they "have their heads up their asses" sooo far, that they commit blunders unless they "get a reality-check".

Committee-culture's fungus-minded.

The problem is that the frame-of-reference is relative, so a corporate-culture which is still immersed in outer-customers' reality is only one "degree" divorced-from-reality.

However, if the "frame-of-reference" of a culture is other sociopathic cultures, .. then .. then outright psychopathy becomes recommended/pushed/evolved, in order to compete among the misperceived-context ( which is only other-sociopathies ).

So, it's an escalating positive-feedback-loop.

Sociopathy breeds sociopathy, & when enough of the corporate-frame-of-reference is sociopathy, then psychopathy becomes primary, & eventually it is normal & ruling.

The increasing polarization in political-sphere, in religion/fundamentalism-sphere, in moneyarchy-sphere, in legalism's increasingly shameless contempt-for & eradication-of moral/natural law, the increasing polarization of class-system/monarchy among those in-love with that, the bolder & bolder violent authoritarianism..

it's all part of the SAME gorgon/hydra, just that each "serpent" is going in its own direction, but the fundamental change in human-unconscious is one of "fuck considered-reasoning: I'm going with ideology-enforcing!!"..

it's less intellectually-taxing to be ideological/prejudiced "believer" than it is to remain loyal to considered-reasoning..

there's less moral-anxiety within ideology/prejudice/belief than there is in considered-reasoning..

Overwork unplugs one from the push/pull cycle, the work-hard/rest-deeply cycle, which considered-reasoning requires..

& Microsoft is only 1 single example of progressing-through-sociopathy-into-psychopathy among our countless corporate world-possessors.

DarkHexad dimensions of human-evil:

Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty.

Can you see how the more one immerses oneself in DarkHexad as a means of "winning", the more one's frame-of-reference normalizes that all?

It's just "drift", but in frame-of-reference, is all..

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