Re:Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech indepen...
by diggan on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:39AM
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> scale you move the entire company to SV, ie Spotify.
AFAIK, Spotify doesn't have any presence in SV, but the US part is in NYC, besides the presence in Stockholm (obviously) and the holding company in Luxembourg.
Re:Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech indepen...
by cruzcampo on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:40AM
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Maybe it's time we realize free markets are ... bad sometimes?
Why are we sacrificing our sovereignty to an abstract ideology?
Re:Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech indepen...
by mnky9800n on Thursday May 01, 2025 @06:45AM
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Because if the EU steps in to stop this you couldn't scale because the EU isn't one big market like the USA it is a bunch of smaller markets that add up to a big markert that all have their version of how things should go. If the EU wants to have hyperscalers like the USA they will at some point need to force EU members to do things like relax language requirements, have more overlapping business law, etc.
If the EU stepped in to block the acquisition or corporate move, in order to keep their tech homegrown, it would be seen as government overreach and not respecting the free markets.