Amazon woos Microsoft devs with .NET, SQL Server support
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Sadly, I can't give Amazon Cloud my money. They handled the Wikileaks situation very poorly (they dropped support for Wikileaks). Particularly interesting is this, in which Amazon says "it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted". Evidently they didn't do their homework, as Wikileaks was incrementally releasing the documents, not all 250,000 at once (though, much later after Amazon dropped Wikileaks support, the rest of the documents were released in unredacted form due to human error). Azure has not yet screwed over anything I care about yet, so I'm sticking with them.
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Sadly, I can't give Amazon Cloud my money. They handled the Wikileaks situation very poorly (they dropped support for Wikileaks). Particularly interesting is this, in which Amazon says "it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted". Evidently they didn't do their homework, as Wikileaks was incrementally releasing the documents, not all 250,000 at once (though, much later after Amazon dropped Wikileaks support, the rest of the documents were released in unredacted form due to human error). Azure has not yet screwed over anything I care about yet, so I'm sticking with them.
I hear you: the WikiLeaks saga was full of cowardice and cheap moves by a lot of companies. Not sure if it matters to you (as it does to me), but Microsoft is still supporting the Heartland Institute[^]. Of course, I'm still cowardly enough to keep doing work for MSFT, so I guess it doesn't bug me that much. Not sure what my point is... Time to go home.
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I hear you: the WikiLeaks saga was full of cowardice and cheap moves by a lot of companies. Not sure if it matters to you (as it does to me), but Microsoft is still supporting the Heartland Institute[^]. Of course, I'm still cowardly enough to keep doing work for MSFT, so I guess it doesn't bug me that much. Not sure what my point is... Time to go home.
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Indeed. It would be hard for me to boycott Microsoft. And I have reason to, considering their support of CISPA. However, when pretty much every company has a reason for me to boycott them, it becomes hard for me to find alternatives. Instead, I just choose the biggest offenders to boycott.
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I hear you: the WikiLeaks saga was full of cowardice and cheap moves by a lot of companies. Not sure if it matters to you (as it does to me), but Microsoft is still supporting the Heartland Institute[^]. Of course, I'm still cowardly enough to keep doing work for MSFT, so I guess it doesn't bug me that much. Not sure what my point is... Time to go home.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: full of cowardice and cheap moves by a lot of companies. Note the "a lot of companies" part. It's smart business wise to not annoy the highest buyer of your services. Governments tend to be big buyers, harassing them is never wise unless you can dictate terms. If a few big companies had independently decided to slam the USA government (which by supporting Wikileaks they would be doing), then best outcome they're going to lose customers. Worst outcome they're seen as unpatriotic and they lose enough customers to go out of business. Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft is still supporting the Heartland Institute That one's easier, if MSFT decided to start discriminating about exactly which non-profits had access to their software then there would be a lawsuit in the courts tomorrow morning and a non-profit would be making a tidy profit this year. They're losing ground to Apple too, so being seen as even more evil is probably something they'd like to avoid.