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Ingo Steinke

some more thoughts on corporations: "GAFA" is missing Microsoft, another very big and influential company that keeps buying and assimilating smaller startups and established businesses. While Microsoft is said to have better accessibility, and they have partially embraced open source and release useful cross platform stuff like VSCode and Edge browser, they're still bad and annyoing in their own way.
Some similarities between Microsoft and Google: usability and design got worse and more ugly, and more confusing over the years, both have search engines that aren't really doing a good job, both offer online advertising with ugly and confusing dashboard apps, and dubious value, to spread ugly ads over the internet and collect user data while doing it. And so on....