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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 21:06:11 JST Aral Balkan

   If the success of Microsoft Windows is anything to go by, capitalism rewards exploitative mediocrity, not utilitarian excellence.

   (Why yes, I’m testing on Windows and slowly losing the will to live again, how did you guess?)

   • wouterla (wouterla@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 21:18:48 JST wouterla

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     @aral hold strong! 💪

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 21:18:48 JST Aral Balkan

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     • wouterla

     @wouterla I’ll try but it keeps beeping at me. I think it’s in pain.

   • Fifi Lamoura (fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 22:56:15 JST Fifi Lamoura

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     • Hugo.T.N. Milan

     @HugoTNMilan @aral Ahem, more like monopolistic business practices. Silicon Valley has never actually been about competition on merits or innovation, it's always been about bubbles and creating monopolies.

   • Hugo.T.N. Milan (hugotnmilan@nerdculture.de)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 22:56:17 JST Hugo.T.N. Milan

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     @aral Rather good marketing and general accessibility.

     My dad once attended a presentation for a big Windows rival in the 80-90's. It was better in practically every ways, but it was far more geared toward professional use than the average user, and it heavily marketed itself as such. My father, himself a programmer, pointed it, out but they ignored him and the others who said it as well.

     I think you can guess what happened.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.