We've seen this from big tech before...
Q. What happens when you have a much smarter sales person, when faced with a public sector procurement jobsworth...?
A. Far more expensive, unnecessary and difficult to untangle multi-year purchases. (We've all seen it.)
Soooo, this feels like the same thing IMO when the best Lawyers that Google can find (and can easily pay for) and are instructed to enforce a market protecting strategy, to then simply face off against comparatively naval-gazing regulators...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
