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Companies like Microsoft should not be given "incentives to exist" anywhere (at least as they exist currently). They are corrosive to the public good.


Are you sure? Enumerate all the competition and associated technilogy this has enabled for decades: tooling, software, etc.

I am not sure how someone should be entitled to prevent others from enjoying thr benefits of better technology.

If you do not like it, just skip it, as I do.


Are you seriously trying to pitch the flaming garbage heap that is Microsoft Windows as "better technology"? Microsoft is a predator, they offer licenses to schools at a knock-down rate in order to nurture a dependency on their product. The volume of cash that has been extracted from the general populace in this way is obscene. To top it off they have gone out of their way to sabotage free and open competitors, limiting the market to their shitty and overpriced offerings.


No, ehat I am saying is that if you go against companies that create wealth not only the bad ones will disappear but also the good ones.

Because you will scare all of them.




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