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edmund_the_destroyer wrote (edited )

I would note that Google and Microsoft's actions make sense when considering the goal of maximizing profit.

When you have an effective monopoly on a market, it is most profitable to lock the market on to your products and shut out competitors. That is what Microsoft did in the 1990s and pre-2010 era and what Google is trending towards now.

When you don't have an effective monopoly on a market, it is most profitable to support open standards and open markets so you can compete against other vendors on a level playing field. That is what Google did most at the beginning and is doing less now, and it's what Microsoft has started doing as Internet Explorer lost its near monopoly and more and more consumer computing has shifted off of native Windows-only applications.

The important lesson, which everyone on this forum already knows, is that a large tech company's interests only align with consumer interests on occasion and by accident. And they won't stay aligned.

(Edit: One side note. I run my own email server, and I can't send and receive with Google Mail accounts just fine. Sending and receiving to Microsoft's Hotmail and Outlook.com accounts does not work.)

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pizzaiolo OP wrote

(Edit: One side note. I run my own email server, and I can't send and receive with Google Mail accounts just fine. Sending and receiving to Microsoft's Hotmail and Outlook.com accounts does not work.)

That shit is infuriating

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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

I researched the problem and their excuse is that some service somewhere has my email server IP address listed as a source of spam. I started the process to get it fixed, but it might have required a payment to the company. It's been a few years, I don't remember. I didn't care enough to continue at the time.

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