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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by tripzilch on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:40AM (#23178279)
> an Ontario-wide beer retail chain, owned by the province-wide beer wholesale monopoly, in turn owned by a cartel of foreign breweries.

good thing we have SAP to facilitate the development of large scale business, such as monopolies and cartels.

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by perl4ever on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:41PM (#23187906)
I don't think the existence of SAP is particularly relevant to a monopoly that exists because of statute. Although I don't live in such a state, I know there are places in the US where all the liquor stores are government run.
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