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[–] randomwords@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing Microsoft ever does should be trusted or relied upon. They are a bad actor who always operates in bad faith and should be treated as such.

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Still better than Google though.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 years ago (1 children)
[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

They don't.

While we're on the subject, neither does Google.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

When someone says that Microsoft is NOT an ally to free software on /r/opensource, they're almost ALWAYS downvoted. Then their prized company pulls this shit.

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Op article is from 2020.

This Microsoft article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui is dated 30 January 2023 and still uses the MAUI brand name, so Microsoft have not fixed their mistake

This should be a slam dunk case of copyright infringement for the original Maui project. Isn't this the sort of thing EFF (EFFE?) should be fighting in the courts on behalf of small open source projects?

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

From the article (from original Maui's response):

a UI framework that as of today is still the first result in Google when searching for the term “Maui UI framework” but that due to the might of GitHub (another Microsoft subsidiary) and Microsoft own website (specifically, their blog) SEO that will change over time.

Exactly this has happened. On both Google and DuckDuckGo (partially Bing?) all the top results are Microsoft Maui, you have to scroll down for original Maui

also got confused; this was posted 3 years ago but Hot sort seems to be pulling up a bunch of old posts

[–] WimpyWoodchuck@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This article is from 2020.

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was posted three years ago. My guess is that the recent replies made it show up in "hot" again. I see a lot of old posts with new comments recently.

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