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Or a more modest attempt: how about keeping the assets but breaking up the large corporations? With Android on iPhone, Chrome blocking Google's tracking, Amazon
by repelsteeltje 2y ago
Or a more modest attempt: how about keeping the assets but breaking up the large corporations? With Android on iPhone, Chrome blocking Google's tracking, Amazon.com hosted on Azure, MS 365 and Google docs competing on merits rather than sheltering under respective coorporate umbrellas....
We'd still have much of the same crap, but the ecosystem would be much more dynamic and interesting.
- boxed 2y agoBreaking up how? Splitting MS into Office and Windows creates two (functional) monopolies. Split it into Windows, Excel, Word, Powerpoint creates 4 monopolies. Imo the only split that makes sense is to split it down the middle: TWO companies which BOTH have the rights to Excel. Half the engineers in each.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoThat is an interesting approach: Excel "Community Edition" and Excel "Old Microsoft Edition", and have them compete. Also, perhaps: after 20 years, software must be open-sourced.
- repelsteeltje 2y ago> Also, perhaps: after 20 years, software must be open-sourced. Wow! Wouldn't that be great?! Like as in an international constitutional kind of ground rule saying any software must ultimately become source-available after X years and becomes public domain after Y years. (Still plenty of wiggle room for monopolistic closed source, but at least it wouldn't be that way forever.)
- boxed 2y agoI was saying two competing closed source companies. Markets work best when they emulate nature: speciation, selection, competition. Successful companies should be split with all IP shared by the two daughter corporations.