18th July 2025, 7:27 PM
The problem is that MS should never have bought ALL these corporations to begin with. They wanted exclusives, and because of THAT so very many people have to suffer, to lose their jobs? That's not a good enough excuse. It's just destructive greed. This consolidation of so very many corporations under one banner is harmful to the public at large and to the people forced to work under it. It should never have been allowed in the first place, but of course today the government oversight that would have investigated and prevented such a ridiculous level of consolidation has no teeth, nothing like in the 90's when they were able to slap down MS and force them to unbundle Internet Explorer from the guts of the OS. Now, MS's LLM AI is being forced on all of us against our will, and the justice department has nothing to say about it.
Oh, and I should toss in Google as being JUST as guilty of this while I'm at it. I hope they get split up, but under our current government, that's not going to happen.
Oh, and I should toss in Google as being JUST as guilty of this while I'm at it. I hope they get split up, but under our current government, that's not going to happen.
"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)