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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 26 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I guess not many people remember that Microsoft was convicted of antitrust violations against Netscape (which effectively destroyed that command).

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft nowadays is one of the evil companies. Microsoft back in the day was the evil company.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

What about Monsanto (Roundup) and Philip-Morris (lol)? You could probably include Dole. As well as the East India Company.

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

The video that started this clippy campaign mentioned that. The message is that those sort of transgressions seem so minor compared to what companies bot only do, but get away with now

Clippy was hated at the time, but an annoying useless assistant that doesn't send anything to the Internet, let alone your personal data, seems like a dream now.