• linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    We stop the acquisitions. We work out ways to foster innovation and protect patents only in the short term.

    We need more than a couple phone manufacturers, we need more than a couple of food producers. All of these monolith mega corporations keep smaller upstarts from coming up and competing.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      And more than a couple operating systems. We get a lot of horrifyingly bad compatibility issues from Apple, and to a lesser degree, Google.

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        2 months ago

        Unfortunately some things will IMO always remain a natural monopoly. For example good luck trying to convince developers to write their apps for all those different operating systems.

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      2 months ago

      And it’s hard for anyone to say no to multi-millions that will change your family’s life by selling when it’s not even 1% of the corporations profit. Can’t blame them for selling out really. I’d do the same thing and so would you.