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

• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s not a government enforced monopoly. A government enforced monopoly means nobody else is allowed in the market. Like utility companies.

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  • Overshoot2648@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lots of Utilities are consumer cooperatives which is funnily enough Socialist, but the people working there wouldn’t like to hear that.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nobody else is allowed to sell these licenses

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But they can sell phones.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s called “monopolistic competition”. They can’t sell the same phone they were already making.

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• bamfic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol copyrights and patents are capitalism

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree

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