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They are saying very little in Linux world moved to .NET/C# : https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=mono

It's just not popular in Linux world despite MS attempts to make it so. It's a Windows people language.

I think it is partly that, but I think it is partly all the bright young tech kids coming in from uni want Linux not Windows. I think it's targeted at inside and outside.

Your not meant to be able to render it outside of MS software. The whole ISO thing was high level game to make a monoply look like a standard. It's a super long standard with closed binary bit that were meant to be temporary. It only got through at due to outside corruption. Governments are as much at fault as MS for being a sleep at the wheel of stopping monopolies and keep the market functional. ISO is broken if something can be a standard where the reference implementation is closed, let alone have any closed bits.

They should be made to open Office. Too much is in those formats for a for profit company to own the reference implementation. Let alone for that reference implementation to be closed.

Reading about this "standard" makes me angry every time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML

Google and Apple and Amazon and Facebook are all tech bastards too. But Microsoft has not gone away or been solved.

Monopoly is a super profitable and comfortable position, but it's when capitalism fails.

....wish I hadn't looked up vore....

I've been in tech for over twenty years. About half of it in games (first half) and half Linux embedded stuff. What I've seen is it's hard to recruit good people. The first job to get is the hardest as you have no experience or references. I know I've been lucky, falling in my feet multiple times, but so has everyone I entered industry with. A few now have their own companies. I've had to let a few people go myself and I hate it, but I knew they'd be fine, and they have been.

This is tech workers. They won't be in survival mode. They are highly employable and always have options. I think most people outside tech will have other employment options. Though if you don't, your screwed in multiple other ways on top of has bosses.

Not sure about that. I thought he was a nob before it was cool. He was claiming too much engineer credit for himself since forever. No humility or crediting others.

I think they are more like Musk. It's obvious if you look he's a wrong'un. It's not possible to stay lying about yourself, especially when the ego get boosted so much. The mask slips.

I think that is lack of competition regulation.

I'm sure that happens. But this why you look how long people have worked at places and get a reference.

But you don't stay working for them. You move on. Then they find no one wants to work for them and they spend their whole time complaining they can't get the staff. Psychos are bad news for a company long run.

There is a book about it, "Snakes in Suits".