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Re:Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself by vertexFarm on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:51AM (#16992690)
It happened, but they conglomerated back together. And they captured all the regulatory bodies this time.

We are going to have to get creative or settle in and prepare for an eternal reaming.

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Re:Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself by s2g on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:59AM (#16992718)
yeah, they learned from Microsoft's mistakes.

You have to pay the bribes.

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Re:Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself by icebraining on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:14AM (#16992767)
I don't remember Microsoft being broken up.
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Re:Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself by adventured on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:22AM (#16992796)
They got lucky. Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the company broken up. The Bush Administration is plausibly the only reason Microsoft remained one company.

June 7th, 2000:

"A federal judge today ordered Microsoft Corp. split into two companies, prescribing the biggest corporate breakup since AT&T while harshly rebuking the software giant for stifling computer-age competition. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000607/aponl...

Then Microsoft and the DOJ made a deal on November 2nd 2001. Bush won the Presidency November 7th 2001. It's very likely the Clinton DOJ made a deal to ensure all of their hard work - indeed their victory - couldn't be easily reversed by the dramatically more business friendly Bush Administration if he were to win.

http://time.com/3553242/microsoft-monopoly/

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