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Re:Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians o... by estimator7292 on Monday October 27, 2025 @11:41AM (#45722248)
The cost is already sunk and the only alternative to forcibly extracting any profit is to admit they got suckered into the hype and burned billions of dollars for nothing
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Re:Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians o... by KvanteKat on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:16PM (#45723665)
Sure, but the alternative is not really any better: if the choice is between being the guy who got it wrong vs. being the guy who got it wrong _and_ being the guy who persisted in throwing good money after bad, surely the former is prefereable. As far as I see, the fact that they keep going indicates that they genuinely still believe Copilot could pan out and become profittable in the long run.
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