Today's tech giants won't be as naive as I was in DoJ dealings, says former Microsoft chief Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder and long-serving ex-CEO Bill Gates has admitted naivety in his dealings with Washington around the software giant’s fabled antitrust case with the US Department of Justice (DoJ). But, as Google set out to defend itself against DoJ claims levelled against it this week, the latter-day philanthropist of …
It's the Carnegie Capitalist mentality: capitalism is good, more capitalism is better, and anything done to attain the apex of those goals - from worker subjugation to market manipulation - is all part of the game.
We'll fix our historical legacy by doing good will projects with the monies that we rampantly abused out of the system, after we decide that we've had enough and walk off the playing field (note the consistence of the paradigm).
Indeed, it's all part of the game. All's Fair in Love and War, and Business is War to them. Anything goes, because anything can be justified away for the sake of those profit reports. Enron, Worldcom, Standard Oil...it's all the same, rinse and repeat, because our societies have been brainwashed by the PTB that money is all that talks. A little bit of slight of hand, to make things work "better" (for them, at least), is quite OK.
We, the human condition, will never get anywhere unless and until we learn to move past that, to see the lives behind the numbers on those quarterly spreadsheets, and realize that it is THEY that matter, not your little paper slips with printings of famous people on them.
And be made aware ..... for ignorance and indifference are not available derivative options that succeed ..... should one wish to dare care and further share, all manner of possible support is the win win option always available there in such adventurous awesome events venturing into the future.
What can governments give that tech giants don't already have to protect and serve[r] them? What are governments looking to tech giants for? Is there something to be terrified about and for which there is no guarantee of/for safe and secure command and control? More More Troubling Troubles to Realise Never Go Away whenever Earthed and Wedded and Embedded in the Present , rather than being Excised and Excommunicated to the Vaults of the Past, and from whence they came, in order to be fully able to concentrate on and enable New Beginnings in Brave New Advanced IntelAIgent Worlds ‽ .
That's a Guy Fawkes Easter Egg for Parliamentary Squares and State Established Administrative Field Officers alike. Y'all are welcome to try and defuse it, ..... or explode it. After all, y'all are most likely to suffer the most in the blast areas presenting and/or sporting collateral damage.
Those who think amfM's posts are useless would do well to at least attempt to parse what he has written here. It might change your mind about him.
Beer. Because we're all probably going to need one.
Might want to change "After all, y'all are" to "After all, all y'all are". Parses and scans better.
Rather than a failure to not try to crush your competition with monopolistic tactics. Other than Google which clearly deserves it, I'm not sure what the fate will be of the other tech giants. But if Google gets off scot free like Microsoft eventually did, I suppose Gates will be technically right. It will be because of their lobbying, but not because they aren't guilty.
Internet Explorer? Chrome? Same sh*t different decade. It's not just search that is the problem.
Internet explorer became ubiquitous and many organizations layed out the capital for the first time and seeing the expense, could never get the beancounters to perform an upgrade to their tech when it became outdated.
I see the exact same thing as chrome has become dominant, and many things only work with chrome, AND you have to keep up. I watched one dead man walking project collapse as it was nearing completion as the consultant had not been paid to change versions of angular. Then google dropped it.
So we did not learn the lesson it appears.
I'm waiting for the day when I go into the big box home center and get forced to subscribe to a hammer.
Don't laugh ... Have you seen Bosch's line of Bluetooth equipped tools? A mandatory login to a cloud account before you can use your drill can't be far off ...
And what would you prefer? Lots of mediocre browsers that barely work. Ultimately it takes millions of man hours to make a new browser that follows at least most of the standards and then even more time pushing what is possible further forward. Who is going to do that without any motivation to do it? If they wanted to, they already would. Why do you think even Microsoft has given in and moved to the same base tech?
I think the next monopoly that they would go after would be Office though.
If I were in charge of the DoJ, I'd be looking at the way they've used Office 3.65 to basically push OneDrive to shut out Dropbox, Teams to shut out Slack, and Edge to shut out Firefox and Chrome.
To be honest I'm not a big fan of Teams (especially when you get into the API, it feels amazing that something so clearly bodged together in a hurry actually seems to work at all), and Edge is just another way to make Chrome feel like using Internet Explorer, but OneDrive is at least sort-of usable (and at least doesn't have the new UI cruft Dropbox has inflicted upon itself)
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