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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How the fuck has everyone so easily allowed so few tech companies to dominate?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's just late stage capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you just keep that on the clipboard?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Honestly my google auto-type keyboard suggests that any time I post.

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

No, that's just people don't want to pay for anything and expect everything to be free.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried developing your own web browser?

The Web has become so complex, you need a huge team of talented developers to keep up with it, and for that you need a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How hard can’t it be just put scrum on GitHub and let it work from there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Strange that nobody's doing that, then. Especially since so many people want more competition for Google.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Robert Bork:

He also became an influential antitrust scholar, arguing that consumers often benefited from corporate mergers and that antitrust law should focus on consumer welfare rather than on ensuring competition.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, it's fine if you drive all your competition out of business, as long as the consumer "isn't harmed"^TM^ . But, of course, how are you going to prove that the consumer isn't harmed?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Software development is very expensive. And everyone just wants free stuff. Imagine the outcry if Firefox would drop revenue from Google search and switched to a subscription model a-la Adobe! People would literally lose their minds and call Mozilla Nazis.