XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:52:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:25:55 +0000, Tyrone wrote:   
   >   
   >> Microsoft has never been in better shape in its entire 47 year history.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, they have tried to sell stupid products that failed. But they are   
   >> laughing all the way to bank every day.   
   >   
   > Always interesting, isn’t it, when someone defends the state of a   
   > company by trying to point out how profitable it is (i.e. how much money   
   > it is able to take off customers), rather than how good its products are   
   > (i.e. how useful those products are to the customers) ...   
      
   So you're not a believer in the free market where customers vote with   
   their pocketbooks? afaik there is no government mandate to buy Microsoft   
   products. The forces were obviously at work when the phone failed.   
      
   Note: I may be playing devil's advocate. You can never tell.   
      
   The Real Curse of Microsoft: Today is Patch Tuesday and I updated my   
   personal laptop, a company laptop, and a company desktop. Great fun but no   
   failures.   
      
   otoh Fedora is jealous. It wants to download 933 MB and update 242   
   packages. It looks like plasma everything.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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