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It’s mostly about mindshare.

Microsoft are running Bartertown and and are doing a pretty good impression of Master Blaster. Ironically youtube-dl just got dragged into the thunder dome.

You can trade outside Bartertown but it’s going to have low visibility.



I can sort of buy that argument; but in that case it seems the problem is just that M$ is a company which many people dislike? Not that there are actual restrictiveness issues?


Rightfully dislike yes. They have a very long history of making the wrong decision almost universally, being a monopolist and abusive towards suppliers and customers.

People are afraid that they will do that again after relying on them as a foundation for their product or experience based on some trite promise of "we changed". So when something happens, the attribution and a hypothesis is already formed.

Unfortunately, based on my experiences attempting to fight their universal telemetry, the promise they made is invalid. So why should I trust any of their other promises? I think a lot of people are there too.




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