Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

Microsoft and other large corporations do love open source. Open source software saves them tons of money.

Well, hopefully he’s learned his lesson, but I doubt it.

I always saw the nice things that Microsoft offered to its users

I'd understand this perspective in 2005, but 2025?

thx. i hate russia.

If I would run a global company based in Russia, I'd also try to hide it, even if no malice is taking place.

This kind of reaction is exactly why.

As long as it's open source, it should be fine, though.

This! Exactly:]

For it not to become perceived as "fucking with a company" competition should be normal, and it's normal when the winning side is often enough the new competitor. In other words, if there were a few companies making office suites, compatible between each other, and none of them would hold hegemony.

Because what's perceived is defined by what those holding power think. When they change often through competition, they hail competition. When they are the same companies for 30 years, then they would publicly flog and hang you for it if they could.

Similar to how in Linux 2.2 days some functionality lacking or some anarchist spirit were normal, and now Linux is almost authoritarian as a community. Because it's the main thing in its niche.

Or how Apple Computer was a good company when they were competing with Microsoft and others for normal personal computer market, and became crap after they've achieved long hegemony for the luxury segment.

Even Microsoft itself - when they feared some competition, it was W2K and XP, and when they stopped, it was the rest since.

People don't really believe in things they don't experience. Others' dignity/freedom/safety is important for a human when their own depends on it.

Of course it's not okay but so what? People need to stop acting like they are living in some fantasy where moral has worth.

In this reality we live in laws are enforced with violence, in all it's forms. So if you can't enforce the change you want to see in the world, nothing will change. They have the violence, so they will use it. Of course they will use it. And they will never change the system in a way so they lose power because that would mean they lose their access to violence, which means they lose access to the ability to form the world the way they want. Why should anybody give up that power? It would be stupid. Almost as stupid as to expect them to give it up freely because it is better for everybody.

People are not interested in that stuff. Talk with the average person and they don't know what is happening outside of their bubble.

Most people are just tired driftwood getting violated by the raging ocean waves. Their apathy is understandable.

What is not understandable is that someone who builds an alternative to a Microsoft product, knowing what scum they are, is still using their other product instead of alternatives that exist.

This is war. Of course they try to cripple your production.