And it’s hard for anyone to say no to multi-millions that will change your family’s life by selling when it’s not even 1% of the corporations profit. Can’t blame them for selling out really. I’d do the same thing and so would you.
Comment on How can we return to techno-optimism?
linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We stop the acquisitions. We work out ways to foster innovation and protect patents only in the short term.
We need more than a couple phone manufacturers, we need more than a couple of food producers. All of these monolith mega corporations keep smaller upstarts from coming up and competing.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We can at least stop crap like this
confectioneryproduction.com/…/mars-moves-to-deliv…
They actually said in their review of the sale that they’ll be able to do better price fixing even if grocery stores demand price cuts.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And more than a couple operating systems. We get a lot of horrifyingly bad compatibility issues from Apple, and to a lesser degree, Google.
Giooschi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately some things will IMO always remain a natural monopoly. For example good luck trying to convince developers to write their apps for all those different operating systems.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t have to be that way
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They could still be compatible, though. it’s possible even today, to some degree