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Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

[–] Ensign_Crab 23 points 3 months ago

Microsoft has been consistently "stupid" for a very long time about this one particular thing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

Emphasis mine. Incompetence on Microsoft's part is not an adequate explanation for this latest action matching a pattern of other actions designed to antagonize FOSS users.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Stupidity doesn't adequately explain the number of times they have done this. I'm surprised it's even a headline anymore.

[–] TheGrandNagus 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I hate this phrase.

A lot of the time, people (and especially monopolistic, tax-dodging, $3.2 trillion multinationals with a long history of anti-competitive behaviour) really are just cunts.

Time and time again, we see big companies doing anything they can to destroy competition, mislead customers, etc.

Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

stupidity is a once-off

malice is a pattern

and even if it’s not malicious, a pattern of stupid action needs to be stopped just as much as malicious action

[–] deafboy 2 points 3 months ago

stupidity is a once-off

🎶 ...this iiiiis my one an only wiiiiiiish! 🎶

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It's not like MS coined EEE or anything...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

In business and politics "malice" and "stupidity/incompetence" are one and the same.

[–] CeeBee_Eh 4 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Wow, they must be really stupid over at Microsoft!