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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or the courts should force MS to split off into an os company, an online services company, an office productivity software company, and a gaming company.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we had an actual anti-monopoly/umbrella corporation law that would be badass.

Hell Amazon would tank instantly, since they just operate on pumping AWS profits into their loss leader (Amazon delivery) constantly.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So would Google to some extent. This actually sounds like a good plan. We should go back to the 90's antitrust law. Before we made it toothless and basically unenforceable.

Fuck yeah! Lets do some trust bustin!