C&D takedown to Microsoft by Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715168
Microsoft's response(Lying at #40 on second page because of heavy flagging by Google fans in spite of it having more votes than many stories on front page):
How about just skipping the story/comments and moving to the next instead of trying to bury real news for everyone by flagging?
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You're basically abusing your mod privieleges.
Your reply, which totally misses the point, is an elegant demonstration of just how fucking awful these threads are and exactly why they need to be buried.
There's no real news here. There's nothing deeply interesting. And the comments are just full of people who have deeply held polarised opinions bickering with each other.
The fact that you think I chose to bury something because it's critical of Google (I say plenty of anti-Google stuff) shows that you are over-sensitive and incapable of rational discussion. That's why threads like these are fucking terrible.
> You're basically abusing your mod privieleges.
No. This is a shitty thread. I'm proud I flagged it. I'd flag it again if I could.
You have to understand, however, that the generalized hatred of microsoft is nothing more, nothing less than a direct consequence of microsoft's past coming back to haunt them. No other company in tech comes even close to having so many skeletons in the closet. People have long memories and asking them to ignore microsoft's past is pure intellectual dishonesty.