Re: goodbye Skype

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, Retrograde wrote:

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When they were acquired by microsoft, the Seattle boys called the shots,
and they rejected his research in favour of something Microsoft developed
that was very shitty.
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He got angry, quit, and started to work at Google a couple of weeks later.
They very much enjoyed his research on audio compression, and he is still
there.

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That sounds pretty typical for Microsoft, actually.
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Really wish all these tech monopolies would go pound sand.
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Yes! You are a wise man! Microsoft is the master of enshittification! =( Fortunately I haven't touched a non-webbased microsoft product for ages! =D