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Every time this happens Microsoft either threatens to move out or promises to move in with a chunk of their operation. Blackmailing with jobs has been very effe
by jacquesm 1y ago
Every time this happens Microsoft either threatens to move out or promises to move in with a chunk of their operation. Blackmailing with jobs has been very effective for them.
- stephen_g 1y agoI think that strategy might be running out of steam though, before these projects seemed to have more commercial reasons or just pushing the idea of openness, but sovereignty is a much stronger ideal and much more likely to be the one that will weather the blackmail.
- steve1977 1y agoYeah but what is different now is that the US is run by unpredictable lunatics. It's not really just about Microsoft anymore.
- rekabis 1y agoAnd the more important thing is just how much damage those lunatics can do through Microsoft using American laws -- even current ones, much less new ones. Microsoft would be a mostly helpless puppet in this entire exchange; a cat’s paw, as it were.
- jacquesm 1y agoYes, given how fast Amazon and Apple rolled over it's clear they don't stand a chance. It's not like they can teleport Seattle out of the USA if they had to. I wonder how big a fraction of the US tech and Military industry realizes that Trump is killing their business for the next century.