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shimman 3 hours ago

Honestly extremely pathetic by a trillion dollar corporation that has a massive, undemocratic, say in how technology is developed in this country.

Microsoft should be broken up into a dozen different companies and it's quite clear they violated their consent decree from the US DOJ a few decades later, so they should get punished extra hard. Maybe nationalize Excel putting it in the public domain for starters.

dyauspitr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah break up all the big companies so Chinese state sponsored behemoths can take over everything. This isn’t the 90s where Americans only competed with other Americans.

pocksuppet an hour ago | parent | next [-]

China is competing so well because it has a central bureaucracy that issues 5 year plans and issues money to get them done. Do you think America should do that too, or do you think America and China are different countries with different values?

henry2023 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Breaking up big tech would make US markets more competitive, not less.

alehlopeh 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

GP didn’t say all the big tech companies. Just Microslop.

Waterluvian 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly not sure I find that prospect worse than the American status quo. At least the Chinese regime is a rational actor.

jimmaswell an hour ago | parent [-]

"America is just as bad as China" is not cute or clever; it's trite and objectively wrong. There really is no intellectually honest argument to the contrary. For starters we don't get arrested for saying "Kent State Massacre" - can't say as much for "Tiananmen Square" in China. No matter how atrocious our government may be at times, it doesn't hold a candle to them.

scuff3d 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So you're saying the market is weaker with more competition?

starfallg 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nope, just break up the one that has been consistently found to be abusing their market position. Microsoft has been embroiled in this since the 90s.