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I read your response as “I don’t care if any abuses or how much better things could have been as long as they are good enough”. Did I get it right?
by beagle3 6y ago
I read your response as “I don’t care if any abuses or how much better things could have been as long as they are good enough”. Did I get it right?
- scarface74 6y agoNo, I am saying that technology moves so fast and government is so incompetent, that it is better to let the market disrupters take care of it. As another anecdote, the government sued IBM for being a monopoly in 1969. By the time the case wound its way through the courts, the government dropped the case because it didn’t matter. The market had moved on. (https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/09/business/why-baxter-dropped-the-ibm-suit.html https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/09/business/why-baxter-dropp...) By 1982, the PC was already taking over. Just like while the government was worried about the Microsoft “monopoly”, Jobs was busy raising Apple from the dead, Google was moving from a college campus to being a real company, Amazon was expanding from just selling books and companies were starting to decrease their dependence on Win32 APIs and on to the web. Not to mention that Java and Flash was making rich cross platform web apps viable.