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I know I sound like a broken record when I dig up the self-aggrandising Microsoft quote:
I have a feeling that Microsoft’s behaviour will not change until we change the laws that increase the liability of software providers and, thus, increase their financial risk of doing nothing. Price it as painful as GDPR. That might help.
Tech firms that have grown to a size for society to be dependent on it and that then turn out to be worse and worse stewards of their responsibility will be the cause of crises.
„The world is starting to wake up to the fact that Microsoft is“ - you finish the sentence.
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The problem is, it isn’t just Microsoft. Apple, Google and, in many cases, Open Source isn’t much better.
In fact, Apple has been known to sit on zero-days for 6 months, before public pressure forces them to patch (Java updates from Sun/Oracle in 2008-2010 time frame, the update was passed to Apple, along with all other JVM suppliers in the January and patched immediately, except Apple, who were finally forced to push the update in June/July).
Apart from my photography workflow (Capture One and Serif Affinity Photo), I could jump tomorrow to Linux. My Caputre One subscription was too expensive and I’m now trying Darktable. But finding a decent graphics program for Linux is difficult, The GIMP is the most well known, but doesn’t offer the workflow or quality that Affinity or Photoshop offer, unfortunately.
I’m seriously thinking of going Linux on my desktop anyway and then looking at a Mac mini for my next upgrade - I’d like to wait until the second generation of chips comes along, before making a decision, as I got stung last time by buying a first generation Intel iMac, which was dropped quicker than Thermite being held by someone with only surgical gloves.
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