How should I characterise software companies like Microsoft?
Always be aware that there may be Microsoft people in the audience that can stand up any time to correct you if you don’t stick to the truth! You should try to talk about non-free software companies in general (avoid names) as bad examples of how they treat their customers, forcing upgrades or taking away their data in unknown formats.Microsoft is a natural product of a wrong approach. They are the worst curtailer of freedom, but that’s only because they’ve been the most successful. Others are trying very hard to restrict the freedom of users in the same way as Microsoft.We need to fix the general approach.
