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Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countriesMicrosoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countriesPosted Mar 28, 2011 12:22 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries by danielpf Parent article: Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries
I've met a lot of free software developers. I have never met one whose reason for doing what he (alas, rarely she) did was 'I want to get back at Microsoft'.
No, it was always for the fun of it, to make better software, because sharing code is easier than locking it away, because you didn't lose everything when you changed jobs: hell, even for the paycheque alone (though that is thankfully rare). But essentially nobody I have ever met engages in a creative act like software development to oppose Microsoft. Lots of Slashdotters think that's why they do it, but as far as I can tell this is a symptom of distance from the code and testosterone poisoning, nothing more.
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Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries Posted Mar 28, 2011 17:52 UTC (Mon) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723) [Link]
One cannot reduce the FOSS movement to developpers only, even if obviously they play a key role. The whole movement results also from non-programmers and companies actually using and distributing the programs, and by that producing feedbacks (tests, manuals) and various stimulations (apraisal, money) to developpers. For these non-developpers the motivations to use FOSS can be very different from the ones of developpers.
Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries Posted Mar 28, 2011 18:07 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
In my experience both as a user and as a contributor in various forms for well over a decade, I have rarely if ever met a single person with a anti-MS position as the primary reason to use FOSS. They might exist but certainly a fringe element. I have seen freedom, flexibility and several other reasons commonly cited and that has nothing to do with any single organization. Reducing it to such low levels is a sham and a poor one at that without any evidence to back up such claims.
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