• @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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      264 days ago

      All these shady things started happening after he left.

      Not really, they have a history of this kind of thing. They just calmed down a little between roughly 2005 and 2015.

      The big antitrust case when they killed Netscape was in 1998. Bill Gate’s deposition from that case is kind of interesting to watch as a historical document. It’s on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL90W55zhFBOuZuhgxBsjpgDy0o3ll1PSz

      In that lawsuit their “Embrace Extend Extinguish” strategy in which they tried to smother open standards became public too.

      They tried with Java and their J++ language too, but failed luckily. And lost a lawsuit against Sun on the way.

    • @wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
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      134 days ago

      Plenty of shady monopolistic things happened under Gates as well. The original Explorer antitrust lawsuit dates from the late 90s, the ACPI debacle, etc.

    • @mathias_freire@lemmy.ml
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      34 days ago

      I know. I am a Linux enthusiast myself. After Sadya got in the position, Microsoft suddenly became to get interested in Linux, contributing to projects and even funding them. But to this day, I still do not trust them.