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> I think it is nothing alike the issues the monopolistic position of microsoft was causing in the 90s-00s If you look into it with a "fresh eye", you may find
by rickdeckard 3y ago
> I think it is nothing alike the issues the monopolistic position of microsoft was causing in the 90s-00s
If you look into it with a "fresh eye", you may find that this is about several companies competing to replace _the internet_ with an abstracted platform they own and monetize exclusively.
We're just so deep into that journey already that it's not that obvious anymore, not noticing how some of those companies actively limit their contributions to open standards in favor of having proprietary advantages in this competition for "the next internet".
All this behavior is not sufficiently regulated (because 20 years ago it wasn't necessary as tech companies HAD TO collaborate across industries to make big things happen), but I'd argue that it should be.
- geraldhh 3y agoyea, could we please sanction the v4 internet of the last two decades as un world heritage or something and make the gold diggers leave for some unregulated ar/ai-mine elsewhere.