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   LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 21:05:58 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

   Modern operation systems should come with pre-installed set of all tools needed for everyday use.

   This includes a free video editor, archiver, photo editor as well as an office suite. And both Windows and Android are failing spectacularly in these tasks, forcing users to explore often shady marketplaces to find a 3rd grade software. This is a failure with society-wide consequences, and both Microsoft and Alphabet should be fined for forcing uneducated users to risk their valuable hardware.

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     Dowito (dwite39@pawoo.net)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 04:11:12 JST Dowito

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     @LukeAlmighty
     Probably Microsoft and co own part of those shady 3rd rate software so it’s technically they objective to ruin your hardware.

     So you can buy more,in an infinite loop.

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     applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2: (applejack@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 09:55:43 JST applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:

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     @LukeAlmighty And then when they don't install an image compressor because no normie needs that, what are you going to do? When you hate all the software installed, what are you going to do? And when people become used to these retarded monoliths and choices start to fade from everyone, what will you do?

     You' want Musks' "everything app", not a layer between processes and eachother and the hardware, an OS

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 15:57:50 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @applejack
     Did I say it needs to be an everything app, and that it should not be possible to install a better software?

     I just said, that the stupid app store is a complete trash, where I cannot find a proper software. So, how is a normie supposed to work with it?

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     applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2: (applejack@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 17:58:32 JST applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:

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     @LukeAlmighty You did say it should have everything, you did not say it should be impossible to install new software, it's just a consequence of what you're asking for

     There are over 3 million apps on the store. If you could not find an app to compress images or whatever you were trying to do, chances are good you suck at searching

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 18:13:25 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:

     @applejack
     There are 3 millions of cloned apps.
     That store is a fucking cancer, and Google should be ashamed to death.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 18:28:28 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:

     @applejack
     I kinda cannot believe, that you're arguing, that MS edge is killing firefox/chrome and that Paint is killing photoshop/gimp.

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     applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2: (applejack@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 18:37:08 JST applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:

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     @LukeAlmighty Can't believe you're trying to say that the Playstore sucks by arguing for monolith systems

     >Edge, Paint
     Now do the Google ecosystem on Android

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 18:56:32 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @mactonite @applejack
     Literally the dumbest anti-trust I have ever heard of. :sadpanda:

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     :not_the_confederate_flag: :senko_dance: Otso :senko_dance: :verified: (mactonite@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 18:56:33 JST :not_the_confederate_flag: :senko_dance: Otso :senko_dance: :verified:

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     • applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:
     @LukeAlmighty @applejack microsoft has been hit with anti trust laws for daring to provide a media player and web browser out of the box. consumers just install chrome anyway and do everything using javascript web apps so it doesn't matter what they include or not.
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     applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2: (applejack@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 19:37:50 JST applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:

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     @LukeAlmighty @mactonite NINETY FIVE!

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 19:50:57 JST 翠星石

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     @LukeAlmighty @mactonite @applejack >anti trust laws for daring to provide a media player and web browser out of the box.
     The reason they were hit wait anti-trust laws was because they did far more than just that.
     
     When it came to "internet explorer", microsoft criminally manipulated their position to ensure that many sites only worked in ie and surprise, surprise, all the suckers ended up using it.
     
     I don't know much about the case when it came to the media player, but I believe that media player does implement digital handcuffs for numerous purposes, including anti-competitive reasons.
     
     
     Unfortunately, nothing happened to microsoft in the end, aside from a trivial fine that was passed onto the suckers, when the court should have ruled to execute the business.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:35:53 JST 翠星石

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     @mactonite m$ pretty manipulated and bribed web developers and companies into using their proprietary web server (IIS), web "design" software, web "interface" and plugin systems (i.e. silverlight) and the end result was endless websites, including non-optional government ones that only worked in "internet explorer", due to a complete lack of standards-compliance and bug-dependent functionality.
     
     Pretty much, microsoft's rent for their software is so extremely high so that suckers who have fallen into their lock-in tarpit will gladly do almost anything in exchange for a discount and will gladly proceed to make webpages with microsoft software if commanded so (one more recent example was when microsoft offered a steep discount for some "product" (the name I can't recall) to any "sysadmin" sort if they went and voted for their "OOXML" "format" instead of a real format like say ODF in standards body format polls and suddenly there was huge "support" for "OOXML").
     
     
     This is a distant memory that many people will claim never happened thanks to how m$'s tentacles no longer strangle most websites, but it seems they're trying it again with their "remote attestation" schemes (for "security" reasons, only clients that attest that the client is running only approved versions of certain proprietary OS's and the user hasn't modified can access this website).
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     :not_the_confederate_flag: :senko_dance: Otso :senko_dance: :verified: (mactonite@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:35:54 JST :not_the_confederate_flag: :senko_dance: Otso :senko_dance: :verified:

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     • applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:
     @Suiseiseki @LukeAlmighty @applejack microsoft doesn't make every website so that doesn't make sense
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:06:02 JST 翠星石

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     @mactonite >so you're describing selling a service which still isn't unfair.
     I just described criminal anti-competitive, unfair behavior rather than a legitimate service.
     
     >what would be really bad for competition is increasing government regulation as it always hurts newcomers in every industry.
     The government regulator finally started doing its job in ensuring that it would be possible for newcomers could actually join the industry, rather than being completely blocked out by microsoft - unfortunately the didn't even get halfway through.
     
     >i have noticed that in the public sector they are totally dependent on microsoft software.
     Yes, due to microsoft's criminal behavior and the lack of government action, that has occurred.
     
     The government is giving microsoft regular handouts instead of carrying out its duty, which would be to dissolve the company, put the executives in prison (there's endless things a prosecutor could prosecute over) and release the source code of all of their software as free software (although all of it would only be useful for reverse-engineering and re-implementing purposes).
     
     >ms offers various free services that are highly integrated to windows
     The services are never free or gratis - you pay with both your freedom and your money.
     
     >most people don't know how to use other operating systems.
     This is only because microsoft gets children hooked on their proprietary cigarettes in school by offering a slight discount to educational institutes and ensure that children are taught only how to use their billycart's controls, rather than general computing skills.
     
     All of these people could learn how to use other operating system if they had the will to or bossman told them that the computer system has been changed and they're getting paid learn how to use it.
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     :not_the_confederate_flag: :senko_dance: Otso :senko_dance: :verified: (mactonite@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 23:06:03 JST :not_the_confederate_flag: :senko_dance: Otso :senko_dance: :verified:

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     • applejack 🇮🇸:hitlergrin2:
     @Suiseiseki @LukeAlmighty @applejack so you're describing selling a service which still isn't unfair. what would be really bad for competition is increasing government regulation as it always hurts newcomers in every industry.
     i have noticed that in the public sector they are totally dependent on microsoft software. ms offers various free services that are highly integrated to windows and most people don't know how to use other operating systems. then their other pricey suites of software look like an easy pick because nobody can see through the scheme. it would be better for them to use free software.