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at what point do anti trust shit get put into place

[–] [deleted] • 8 pts

right after the government gets done doing jack shit

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It doesn't. Anti-trust is a way for governments to break up competitors with established interests, not to protect consumers. The kinds of monopolies anti-trust is "needed" to break up are only possible in an environment with heavy regulation and intervention anyhow.

The last time they went after microsoft they picked the most ridiculous cockamamie complaint they possibly could, then let it drop as soon as they had their judgement. Coincidentally, that was around the time microsoft started pouring money into lobbying. The lesson is: Pay your taxes and you won't get in trouble. Both the official kind and the unofficial kind.

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I've heard that the anti-trust action taken against microsoft was to force them to include back door access into windows.

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Probably that too. The famous "NSA key" was discovered in windows around that time. Come to think of it, I wonder if the cream pie incident was staged by deep staters to emotionally pressure gates. The suit against microsoft was a joke. If they seriously wanted to go after them they'd attack them for the practice of making deals with manufacturers to suppress competing operating systems, not because he went into competition with netscape.

Bottom line, "anti-trust" has nothing to do with ending monopolies, only enforcing them. It's in the interest of governments to support monopolies, not break them up.

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For Microsoft? They don't really have a monopoly on anything any more. The closest thing is probably Office, but they don't stop you from using whatever -- people just prefer to standardize on a solution. If it weren't MS it would be WordPerfect or Adobe somethingorother

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I fucked with Open Office for a while. It worked fine in 90% of scenarios.

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Libreoffice is better. The people working on openoffice ditched it at one point (possibly licencing issues) and continued development on libreoffice.

And you're right. I'd say better than 90%. I've never needed a feature that was only available in office.

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I use Google for a lot of stuff. Not based, I know. But it also works. I also have an office license.

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waaaaaaaaaaa why don’t the laws that stopped existing a century ago magically protect me from everting waaaaaaaaaaaaa

You deserve this.

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Didnt they already buy and subsequently destroy Skype?

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That's kind of what they do.

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They didn't destroy Skype so much as halt development to maximize profitability. And the rapidly moving tech market left them behind.

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Skype was a fully P2P messaging system. MS bought it and converted it to a MITM system. So yes, they destroyed it

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all competition gets absorbed and controlled... welcome to international finance.

there's zero political solution

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discord has always been controlled opposition at best and it has been incredibly successful at monopolizing its niche, despite the fact that its literally run by furry pedos.

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Does it? There's plenty of competition to discord, most of it is better. Discord have been caught leaking chat logs to antifa, so I have zero problem with them withering on the microsucks vine.

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Well shit...

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Why would you be against this? Discord are run by antifa members/sympathisers. The sooner microsoft kills it the better.

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Thank goodness discord will finally die

Skype who?

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Perfect example. Every time a megacorp buys up a company I see people saying "we need government to stop this, otherwise they'll just buy everything." What actually tends to happen is that they fail to assimilate the aquisition and competitors take over.

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Alternatively liberals proclaim more regulation is needed, then complain why so much consolidation is happening. Ive even seen liberals go as far as saying government imposing regulations and fines on companies is actually a failure of capitalism, somehow? Im not entirely too sure how one can even think that govt intervention = freedom?

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TBH this might actually improve Discord simply because MS might be slightly less SJW than the current owners of Discord (note I said slightly) and/or don't care about policing content as much.

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Small parts isolated and destroyed.

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Why can't there be more people who don't give a fuck about money and allow themselves to remain free? Of course you start the business to make money, but it should be in created your image and maintained that way.

When the money rules you, you've lost.

Or at least take that 8 bil and do something good with it, not like fag gates "good" but actually help the world combat these forces of evil.

Microsoft is going to fuck this up, like everything else (((big business))) touches.

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That's what Musk did. Took his PayPal money and has been trying to do something good with it.

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Discord was already fucked up, they leaked chat logs to antifa. They didn't give a shit about freedom, they wanted slavery.

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They're going to integrate discord tech into Teams, Skype is already a dead service walking, as "personal" teams exists now. They'll take what they can from discord's tech and integrate into teams, then move skype into teams eventually.

Teams is HOT right now, they've already destroyed sack.

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God damnit.

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Why is this a problem? Discord are yet another shitty lefty startup, they're the imgur of chat apps.

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In the not too distant future, gates and bezos will raise armies to battle for title of #1 shabbos goy.

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Discord is already trash

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