• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    It’s impossible to imagine that they haven’t talked about nixxing something like Microsoft Activation Scripts though.

    The idea that a multinational corporation will be able to resist enshittification forever is pretty cute. These things happen over the course of many years. They haven’t turned it to shit yet, but it’s basically inevitable isn’t it?

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      7 months ago

      Microsoft is a services company anymore.

      You pirating their desktop operating system as an end user is something they don’t care a lot about if we’re being honest.

      Inevitable, idk. Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t trust them but they’ve acted in good faith so far as it pertains to GitHub.

      If they enshittify they have competitors.

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        7 months ago

        “good faith” is a human concept. Corporations aren’t people, they don’t act in any faith. They haven’t yet fucked it up, but that means literally nothing. Trust is an irrelevant concept here.

        All it takes is a bad quarter, a new exec wants to prove their worth, a news article makes Microsoft look bad for hosting piracy software. Anything could trigger the change. Whatever or whoever is stopping them from making this mistake isn’t going to be around forever.

        Sure, they don’t rely on consumer sales, but that creates a contradiction. They have an anti-piracy system, so they nominally care about it. That creates tension that will never be resolved in favour of piracy. They will eventually crack down against their own interests.

        I don’t even know why you’d argue about this. Maybe lightning will strike on this issue and it won’t get removed, but if it makes a difference to you you’re better off assuming it will happen.

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          7 months ago

          Sure. You’re right. It could get worse at any time. Great talk.

          To answer your question as to why I’d argue, I didn’t realize you were having an argument.