What do Communists teach their children?

@shallow-blue said
Please. I don't have the time. I could write books about it. So could anyone in my trade. There's too much, genuinely too much. I'm not even trying to snark you off, there really is far too much dirt on Microsoft, Apple, previously also but these days to a lesser extent IBM, and very much more so these days Google, Facebook and the Chinese giants, for anyone to summarise ...[text shortened]... if you're really interested: start with the Halloween Papers and work your way deeper into the mire.

How hard it is to say Microsoft (as any big corporation does) worked to suppress freeware competition so they could make more money?

I await your response where you tell me I'm wrong about the Halloween Papers, that I'm a stupid Americuhn and that you could bury me under a ton of spam...but where you don't actually address the topic.

@athousandyoung said
How hard it is to say Microsoft (as any big corporation does) worked to suppress freeware competition so they could make more money?

It's easy to say, but it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. That's the real problem with explaining this: few people outside the profession have any idea how deep the malpractice goes, and many aren't prepared to believe it if you explain. And a forum like this is barely suitable to it, as well: I'd need whole pages to even outline the full problem. I'm not even sure my phone's keyboard would take the strain...