alt Hacker News> Too much of the world depends on a few big orgs in the US with potentially different goals and values to their own.
The solution is simple: build a business environment that would allow a home-grown alternative to have developed over the last 40 years.
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musicale • yesterday at 2:45 PM
> The solution is simple: build a business environment that would allow a home-grown alternative to have developed over the last 40 years.
Time travel is a simple and elegant solution to many problems. (Ignoring unintended consequences at least.)
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alias_neo • yesterday at 11:14 AM
I agree, and I'm not sure whether the reason it hasn't happened is that they can't do it, or they won't do it.
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Nokia and the rest of the Symbian ecosystem actually led the market by a long stretch, just a short while ago. If they hadn't hired a former Microsoft exec to lead the company, and perhaps with a bit of luck, Nokia/Siemens/etc would have been that alternative. But that is another discussion.