Reply to post: Re: "It's about time governments got involved and forced the market open."

Linus Torvalds says ARM just doesn't look like beating Intel

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Re: "It's about time governments got involved and forced the market open."

@Pascal Monett,

But . . . but . . the market auto-corrects itself !

Doesn't it ?

There's a lot of people who say as such without stopping to wonder why the SEC and other regulatory bodies exist. Where there's a dysfunctional market you need a government regulator to clean it up.

A lot of the problems in the US were caused by things like sub prime mortgages, a good example of how inattentive oversight by regulators allowed awful practises to flourish to the point of bringing down the whole economy.

There's no really meaningful competition left in the online world. Google, and that's about it. Why they've not been broken up Bell style is simply because the politicians have no idea that there's a monopoly.

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