Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft’s crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.
Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft’s crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.
I wouldn’t describe it as “bad”, but because of repetitiveness and vagueness I’d say it’s a draft that could’ve used a couple of re-reads by the author. It sells well because it’s rightfully so dumping on Microsoft.
It’s not even particularly accurate or nuanced in its history of Microsoft’s actions and the doc formats, it doesn’t mention any competitors, it doesn’t mention anything about the history of type setting generally or more advanced projects like LaTex, and at a fundamental level, it’s edited worse than my first year essays.
It spends like 2000 words just to say markdown good because it focuses on intent rather than a particular style.
Yes, I would describe it as bad.
Hmm okay, fair enough.