Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets
Copyrights and patents
That’s not a government enforced monopoly. A government enforced monopoly means nobody else is allowed in the market. Like utility companies.
Lots of Utilities are consumer cooperatives which is funnily enough Socialist, but the people working there wouldn’t like to hear that.
Nobody else is allowed to sell these licenses
But they can sell phones.
That’s called “monopolistic competition”. They can’t sell the same phone they were already making.
Lol copyrights and patents are capitalism
I agree
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s not a government enforced monopoly. A government enforced monopoly means nobody else is allowed in the market. Like utility companies.
Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Lots of Utilities are consumer cooperatives which is funnily enough Socialist, but the people working there wouldn’t like to hear that.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Nobody else is allowed to sell these licenses
Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 days ago
But they can sell phones.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
That’s called “monopolistic competition”. They can’t sell the same phone they were already making.