Satya Nadella: Microsoft has “permission to build the next Internet"

Thank you. Posting subscription-only links on here is not very helpful.

There're sayings about evil: evil by ignorance is bad, but willful evil with full knowledge and understanding is profoundly bad.

I seriously wonder if Satya Nadella is aware of how much harm Microsoft has caused the world, or if he ignorantly lives in a bubble where everyone around him tells him how wonderful Microsoft is, and how their work is somehow "helping" the world.

Microsoft has screwed up every attempt they've made at creating new communities or participating in existing communities, because they can't help but want to own the standards, which they then use to try to punish competitors. No matter how many accidentally reasonable products and services they have, nothing that comes from them should ever be trusted. They only care about money, although they're now slightly more aware of the bigger picture in ways that help them make more money in the long run.

Arstechnica has an agreement to republish some FT.com without need to subscribe. Still the HN bot marks these as dupe, favoring the paywall links at FT which are really [dead] to many people.