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I certainly would miss them since they've been contributing massively to the python static typing story ...

No, I don't want to cobble together an office suite, email server, user auth, identity management, file sharing, meeting scheduling, and messaging system from scratch and then train users how to use this Frankenstein system and also support it. Because you know vendors never blame each other.

Listen to how you're talking about it. That's why the need to go. They're poison. They poison everything.

I'm talking about it like someone who has used alternatives and came to like it after many years. It allows me to manage 250 users comfortably with 1 admin in a decently high turnover environment and spend my time actually getting work done rather than fiddling with APIs and random connectors. I don't have to even think about it and it's worth every penny.

Glad it works for you. Fossil fuels work great, too.

What exactly is your problem with Microsoft? Are you just an edgy "I use Linux guy?" I use Linux too, it's my daily driver. But when you're managing office workers and sales people that have to interface with regular people inside and outside the org, your OSS utopia falls apart. I'm making some assumptions here, but clearly, you don't work in a space where the average person (non tech) needs to collaborate. You drive a car. I drive a school bus.

This is going to really make me sound like a real ass, but I dont own a car! I ride a bike everywhere. Haha. West coast is turning me into a hippy.

And yeah, Im afraid I dont buy your perspective that only Microsoft can do everything. Seems to me like that can't do anything without being shitty in some way - from their very inception (stealing and suing). I personally think the world would be better without mega corporations that act like bad citizens like Microsoft, Google, Facebook and especially Apple. Since I can't have that, I mostly wish they werent allowed to advertise everywhere all the time.

I never said only Microsoft can do everything. The provide the easiest solution that just automatically ties everything together. My company builds actual things, we don't want to spend time fiddling with custom software integrations.

You can't because they will just buy whatever you use to get back into your life.

Nah I like to get shit accomplished.

We owe a lot to the smart people working there

What do we owe them? They already got paid. By Microsoft.

Yeah and they're not doing it for us they're doing it for them. MS is a corporation not some kind of NGO

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