Would breaking up GIANT CORPS like goggle, MS, fb etc help make America great again
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For capitalism to work, you need competition, so I would say maybe.
What is goggle? Dunce.
I remember the world of business before Microsoft. It was difficult to communicate and everyone was using different software. Some were using Lotus. Some OfficeCalc. Some used word perfect, while others had numerous other offerings. None of which could be used with the other makers software. It was unproductive. It was expensive.
Along comes Bill Gates and offers something no one else offered and businesses ran to it. It became the Gold standard and after a while, the other companies disappeared. Business never missed them or their competition because prices continued to drop with productivity.
Microsoft is BIG because consumers LIKE what they produce. Facebook is big because the users like what they are getting. No one is preventing anyone else from building something similar.
So what would be accomplished by breaking them up?
Along comes Bill Gates and offers something no one else offered and businesses ran to it. It became the Gold standard and after a while, the other companies disappeared. Business never missed them or their competition because prices continued to drop with productivity.
Microsoft is BIG because consumers LIKE what they produce. Facebook is big because the users like what they are getting. No one is preventing anyone else from building something similar.
So what would be accomplished by breaking them up?
WordPerfect is still around and a favorite in certain industries. Generic is not always the answer.
I am sorry, but in my experience, I haven't seen ONE business using it for the last two decades. Perhaps it is still used in some law offices. But in business, hardly at all.
It isn't about Generic; it is about a superior product that you can use to create colorful reports, use a variety of fonts, easy to learn and use, embed spreadsheets in and know that almost everyone, except perhaps you, has it and can read what you are sending them.
There's a place to start, cancel all patents, and maybe copyrights, that inhibits competing products from interoperation. The government helps prevent different software from working together.
You just argued that Microsoft is BIG because customers need compatible products.
With all the complaints I hear about Facebook, it doesn't seem like every Facebook user chooses Facebook because they like it. Indeed, they choose facebook because the networking effect makes all competition irrelevant.
They'd lose a lot of power to select our next president. While libs are complaining about imaginary Russian interference, neocons (libs who think they're conservatives) are defending the tech giants who interfere greatly in elections and thus the direction of this country.
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I haven't heard of WordPerfect in ages. In fact, I'd forgotten all about it until I read this.
That is a profoundly stupid idea. Do I really need to explain why???
WRONG; I argued that the REASON they became big was because they offered something customers wanted and needed to run their businesses.
So invent your own version and try to steal some of their users away. Who is stopping you?
"They" don't choose our Presidents and that is a laughably stupid claim that cannot be supported by any credible data.
LINK us up dumb fuck. How do these big companies interfere in our elections. What a preposterously stupid comment.
Celticguy says people still use it.
When was the last time someone used Lotus 1-2-3?
Why is it a stupid idea? You have a mundane intelligence, Greek is gibberish to you, and makes no sense.
The issue of interoperation is what's stopping me. Are you not paying attention? I take back saying you have a mundane intelligence. You're stupid.
You don't understand the importance of protecting intellectual property? Seriously?
Interoperation is not a word you dumb fuck. And you call others stupid? I think you are mentally retarded.
Look into the lawyer biz. It works much better for them much as Apple is a favorite in graphics.
Apple computers use Microsoft products. I think I stated earlier about legal firms. They are few and far between.
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OMG! That's another. Shades of what, 1990 or earlier?Celticguy says people still use it.
When was the last time someone used Lotus 1-2-3?
What, fcktard, is the importance of protecting intellectual property?
Theyre on every town & city.
MS "won" by providing a suite of products when the rest tried to make the best individual tool.
WP > Word always was and still is.
Apple graphics tools > MS
Access is horrid.
The rest of office was bought from someone.
But they all work (somewhat) together. People like one stop shopping (see the success if that with Walmart).
MS did not win on quality. They won on conveniece.
If you have to ask such a moronic question, it would be YOU who are the fucktard. It's called inventions and copyrights; that lead to goods and services; that lead to jobs and wealth. Without them, you would have a Marxist third world shit hole. Is that what you want Blobb? A Marxist third world shit hole?
You didn't get much out of high school did you Blobb? Our founders knew that Blobb. That is why the Constitution delegated that to the Congress to protect them. Section 8; paragraph 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;