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Re:Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Au... by buzzkillington on Sunday April 19, 2020 @07:46PM (#22919767)
>They’re simply not capable of such things.

Google and Facebook are not cutting edge technologies. They are in the position of IBM in the 80s and Microsoft in the 90s, a legacy technology with huge market share being able to charge monopoly prices. A home grown alternative to google search is not beyond any university with a 100m budget.

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Re:Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Au... by Bnshsysjab on Monday April 20, 2020 @12:04AM (#22921007)
What if I told you the government hasn’t been capable of moving away from IBM, SAP, Oracle, SAP or Microsoft yet ;)
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Re:Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Au... by buzzkillington on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:26AM (#22921878)
What if I told you that North Korea has their own OS?
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Re:Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Au... by Bnshsysjab on Monday April 20, 2020 @07:56PM (#22930312)
Id say that Australia isn’t. A dictatorship
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