Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices

A cloud group pressing the European Commission to address Microsoft's software licensing practices has snagged its first British member. Hyve Managed Hosting is joining the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), a trade association backed by 25 other businesses including Aruba S.p.A, flamenetworks, and AWS …

[Steve Davies 3]

I wonder...?

If all those [cough][cough] licensing issues suddenly disappear if you move to Azure?

If so then that should be good enough for a few dozen class action lawsuits..

[StimpyKat]

And this is why

The UK blocked the Activision Blizzard sale. MS literally can't be trusted

[fidodogbreath]

Microsoft uses "unjustified and discriminatory bundling, tying, self-preferencing pricing and technical and economic lock-in" to "restrict choice."

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

[LybsterRoy]

I wonder when attitudes towards why companies exist changed? Once upon a time it was accepted that companies existed to make a profit. Now we see comments like the one above or this "Marmite-maker Unilever and supermarket Sainsbury's have rejected suggestions that they are not protecting customers from rising prices." from an article on the Beeb. I've seen the same about Google not playing fair selling advertising.

So, genuine question, when did we start expecting that supermarkets should protect customers from rising prices or that company A should not try to take business from company B (preferably by legal means)?

[Roj Blake]

Re: when did we start expecting...

When companies got so large as to distort the market and restrict choice.

[Paradroid]

Good

I don't hate Microsoft but they've always been incredibly greedy. Whatever they have is not enough, which leads to aggressive tactics (pushing Edge), and wild kneejerk reactions like turning Windows into a tablet OS because the iPad.

The Azure DevOps tools really frustrate me when I have to use them. Just enough functionality to make Azure look good to managers, architects, and rule of one zealots, but a pain to use for devs.

It's not always an option but if this country is going to be successful we really need to start buying home grown tech, like Germany just did with Nextcloud.

[LybsterRoy]

Re: Good

Upvoted for the last sentence.

[gerryg]

Re: Good

Or insist on truly open standards and let the market operate by preventing lock-in.