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shevy-javatoday at 5:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

That's what de-facto monopolies do.

What is more surprising is that competitors do not arise. Democracies in general have totally messed this up. The USA should be fined for exerting a monopoly onto other countries. And then fined for penalising US customers with that monopoly at home.


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connicputoday at 7:42 PM

Other countries are free to find a way to incentivize building home-grown equivalents and prioritizing that software or even applying tarrifs to foreign software.

metalliqaztoday at 7:30 PM

"the US"? fined by whom?

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