20th January 2022, 6:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 20th January 2022, 6:53 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
The only reason it's "not yet to the point of convincing governments to stop it" is because antitrust lawsuits against major corporations have, largely, STOPPED. MS is doing WAY worse things than bundling IE with Windows these days, but that slap on the wrist they got in the 90's isn't looking like it could even possibly happen. Our government is subserviant to these giants.
MS is an eldritch god, ancient and terrible.
It's time ABF, for you to put away childish things like thinking the justice department is actually swayed by "justice". It's swayed by political leanings. Crushing Sony isn't going to "bring the antitrust lawyers". Nothing "brings" them except political pressure any more, and THAT is not going to happen with our current crop of politicians. Do you honestly think anyone in congress or the white house cares if some Japanese corporation goes out of business or gets eaten up by an American one? If anything, they'd WELCOME it.
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MS is an eldritch god, ancient and terrible.
It's time ABF, for you to put away childish things like thinking the justice department is actually swayed by "justice". It's swayed by political leanings. Crushing Sony isn't going to "bring the antitrust lawyers". Nothing "brings" them except political pressure any more, and THAT is not going to happen with our current crop of politicians. Do you honestly think anyone in congress or the white house cares if some Japanese corporation goes out of business or gets eaten up by an American one? If anything, they'd WELCOME it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)