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by bepotts 8y ago
Exactly. I don't want to get all political, but the people pushing for this definition change are (usually) economic leftists that are naturally worried about the size and power of corporations. It's their default state. There&#x2
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by bepotts 8y ago
What I love most about the EU and Europeans on this site is that they think that all these regulations will mostly hurt companies like Google and Facebook, and sure they'll be hurt. But the US is the largest market for most US companie
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by bepotts 8y ago
I was an engineer at Amazon for a couple years (left about a year ago) and I've never heard of anybody using these services. It's possible that some of the services that we used internally were simply frontends for those AWS servi
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by bepotts 8y ago
I don't care at all about Microsoft being the largest open source contributor. It doesn't change my opinion about them one bit. In fact, I use it against them because they constantly talk about it as if it were a big deal. Microso
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by bepotts 8y ago
I have problems with Microsoft, but I'm also annoyed the amount of praise some devs give Microsoft for doing anything related to open source. Some devs just fawn over every little thing Microsoft does, while also expecting Microsoft sk
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by bepotts 8y ago
The Snowden revelations caused tech companies to implement strong encryption for consumer facing communications. Apple, Google, and Facebook all offer encryption protocols that now piss off the US government and caused friction between the
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by bepotts 8y ago
It's popular to hate the US government and US tech companies, but the US government and US tech companies are far more ethical than the Chinese. It's ridiculous to assert otherwise.
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by bepotts 8y ago
That too. Microsoft allows venders with terrible design teams to sell their product and customers associate Windows with these product lines. Microsoft cannot control their brand. Apple controls the entire stack so they're able to cons
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by bepotts 8y ago
Windows just isn't cool, no matter how hard Microsoft tries to rebrand it. It'll never be cool until Microsoft does something to not make it ubiquitous. Windows is what you use when you're a kid at a public school or have par
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by bepotts 8y ago
Because people want it? I don't understand why tech people can't understand the most obvious of actions. Apple is popular because people love their products. Apple may not always have the specs or work best with non-Apple services
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by bepotts 8y ago
> You could use Mac or Linux. Except you wouldn't be able to interoperate with everyone else. This is precisely the situation with Facebook/Twitter. Still, to this day, Microsoft owns over 80% of the desktop market. Microsoft&#
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by bepotts 8y ago
Which doesn't change my statement in the least. In the internet era, Silicon Valley has been the crown jewel.
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by bepotts 8y ago
Who in the world would trust Donald Trump to manage search across the entire internet? You'd think that after the Trump administration the nation would have a greater appreciation for federalism and a smaller administrative state.
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by bepotts 8y ago
Silicon Valley is responsible for most of the world's innovation, so as a consumer I'd rather we not dictate where firms wanted to set up shop.
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by bepotts 8y ago
This is a dumb comparison and too many people make this argument. You couldn't use any technology without paying the Microsoft tax. There were no smartphones, no internet-of-things, and the internet was just getting started. Everything
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by bepotts 8y ago
Complaining about an open web is just a proxy for complaining about establishment ideas being challenged. You see in Britain with the complaints against the Leave Campaign; you see it in the United States with the rise of Trump; you see it
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by bepotts 8y ago
California and New York are part of the United States. I know people sometimes don't understand this, but the better comparison would be "remove London from the United Kingdom". See how dumb that sounds? That's how dumb
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by bepotts 8y ago
English is the business language of the world. I highly doubt there's some tech epicenter near Brussels that would rival Silicon Valley (or even New York City, Seattle, or Austin) if only those companies spoke English. And sure being a
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by bepotts 8y ago
So I keep hearing but not ever seeing. I know people on the internet love to talk Europe up as some leading tech innovator, but there's a reason why Americans worry about competition coming from either inside America or China. European
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by bepotts 8y ago
I know this gets said a lot, but I live for the day the world sees innovation and quality tech companies from Europe instead of taxation and regulation.
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by bepotts 8y ago
Another reason why all the talk of antitrust against Facebook is ridiculous. Instagram will be in a similar position a couple years from now too.
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by bepotts 8y ago
God help us. Will there be any independent open source/open source friendly company that isn't controlled by some corporate giant?
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by bepotts 8y ago
Which allows companies that produce superior services to thrive. Want more money? Create better goods and services - don't rely on the government to harm the market leader just to give you a heads up. America's "hands off&quo
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by bepotts 8y ago
It's Google's operating system. Nobody would buy a Samsung, HTC, or Sony phone without Google's Research and Development. Smartphone manufacturers are in the smartphone business because of Google. If those manufacturers don
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by bepotts 8y ago
And regulation didn't topple internet explorer - the free market did. I don't understand why people keep trying to use the Internet Explorer precedent as an example of good antitrust maneuvers. It's literally the exact opposi
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by bepotts 8y ago
It reminds me of all the people who like Trump or dislike the EU, and all the people who believe that those people must not understand what's going on in the world; and that if only they learned the "truth", they wouldn&#x2
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by bepotts 8y ago
You aren't aware of every little detail about the actions that companies perform that affects the products you use. You don't know everything about water treatment, energy, housing construction, civil engineering, etc. And you don
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by bepotts 8y ago
Exactly. I think people are too eager to claim Microsoft as one of the "good" guys. Microsoft has been around since the 70's and has not been "good" through almost that entire period. So, Microsoft releases a (nice)
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by bepotts 8y ago
Too much common sense for the internet. I'd love to know the organizations all the Facebook and Google haters work for. No firm is perfect.
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by bepotts 8y ago
It's well known the EU doesn't like Google and Facebook because of how disruptive they are; culturally and economically. Please don't insult my intelligence and say that France would have voted to hurt some of the most innova

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