Would breaking up GIANT CORPS like goggle, MS, fb etc help make America great again

[Life is Golden]

Celticguy says people still use it.

When was the last time someone used Lotus 1-2-3?

OMG! That's another. Shades of what, 1990 or earlier?

[Truth Detector]

OMG! That's another. Shades of what, 1990 or earlier?

Yep.....hell, I used to use 7" floppy disks. How old am I?

[Bobb]

You don't understand the importance of protecting intellectual property? Seriously?

What, fcktard, is the importance of protecting intellectual property?

[Celticguy]

Apple computers use Microsoft products. I think I stated earlier about legal firms. They are few and far between.

Theyre on every town & city.

MS "won" by providing a suite of products when the rest tried to make the best individual tool.
WP > Word always was and still is.
Apple graphics tools > MS
Access is horrid.
The rest of office was bought from someone.
But they all work (somewhat) together. People like one stop shopping (see the success if that with Walmart).
MS did not win on quality. They won on conveniece.

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What, fcktard, is the importance of protecting intellectual property?

If you have to ask such a moronic question, it would be YOU who are the fucktard. It's called inventions and copyrights; that lead to goods and services; that lead to jobs and wealth. Without them, you would have a Marxist third world shit hole. Is that what you want Blobb? A Marxist third world shit hole?

You didn't get much out of high school did you Blobb? Our founders knew that Blobb. That is why the Constitution delegated that to the Congress to protect them. Section 8; paragraph 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

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Theyre on every town & city.

MS "won" by providing a suite of products when the rest tried to make the best individual tool.
WP > Word always was and still is.
Apple graphics tools > MS
Access is horrid.
The rest of office was bought from someone.
But they all work (somewhat) together. People like one stop shopping (see the success if that with Walmart).
MS did not win on quality. They won on conveniece.

That must be why hardly anyone uses Word Perfect and young people never even heard of it.

I'll let you have your OPINION even though it is way off the reality scale when it comes to the topic.

[Bobb]

Theyre on every town & city.

MS "won" by providing a suite of products when the rest tried to make the best individual tool.
WP > Word always was and still is.
Apple graphics tools > MS
Access is horrid.
The rest of office was bought from someone.
But they all work (somewhat) together. People like one stop shopping (see the success if that with Walmart).
MS did not win on quality. They won on conveniece.

You think MS won because they were first with a suit? Lotus had an office suite long before Microsoft. Why didn't Lotus win? You're wrong about who had the first suite, and you're wrong about the value of having the first suite. Don't you feel stupid? You should stand next to Truth Deflection so you can look smart by comparison, who thinks MS did win on quality. MS didn't win by being first or best.

Besides, there was a number of office suites while most people were still using stand-alone products.

[Celticguy]

That must be why hardly anyone uses Word Perfect and young people never even heard of it.

I'll let you have your OPINION even though it is way off the reality scale when it comes to the topic.

Its also what i did for a living the last 40 years.

Just curious, have you ever used word perfect ?

As regards the OP, i do not favor govt interfereing with business. But as government had a hand in making the monster then they probably do need to clean up after their puppy.

But since tech is viewed as a political tool government cannot be trusted in this matter.

Perhaps the best solution is free enterprize.
Make a better mousetrap, one that does not have inherant bias. Then see if the public beats a path to their door.

[Celticguy]

You think MS won because they were first with a suit? Lotus had an office suite long before Microsoft. Why didn't Lotus win? You're wrong about who had the first suite, and you're wrong about the value of having the first suite. Don't you feel stupid? You should stand next to Truth Deflection so you can look smart by comparison, who thinks MS did win on quality. MS didn't win by being first or best.

Besides, there was a number of office suites while most people were still using stand-alone products.

They both were introduced in 1997 lotus was not as extensive.

[Truth Detector]

Its also what i did for a living the last 40 years.

Just curious, have you ever used word perfect ?

I did; probably 20 years ago? I loved MS Word when it came out. Easier to use; great formatting and it matched the same structure of MS Excel so you didn't have to pull out manuals and pay for training to use it.

As regards the OP, i do not favor govt interfereing with business. But as government had a hand in making the monster then they probably do need to clean up after their puppy.

What monster did they create? I don't recall the government having a hand in the creation and success of MS, Facebook or Google.

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You think MS won because they were first with a suit? Lotus had an office suite long before Microsoft. Why didn't Lotus win? You're wrong about who had the first suite, and you're wrong about the value of having the first suite. Don't you feel stupid? You should stand next to Truth Deflection so you can look smart by comparison, who thinks MS did win on quality. MS didn't win by being first or best.

Besides, there was a number of office suites while most people were still using stand-alone products.

^^Stuck on moron.

[Bobb]

They both were introduced in 1997 lotus was not as extensive.

Lotus came out with an office suite in 1985. Your argument is stupid, but if I don't correct you, you won't realize how utterly wrong you are.

[Bobb]

If you have to ask such a moronic question, it would be YOU who are the fucktard. It's called inventions and copyrights; that lead to goods and services; that lead to jobs and wealth. Without them, you would have a Marxist third world shit hole. Is that what you want Blobb? A Marxist third world shit hole?

You are so fcking stupid, Truth Deflector. You think monopolies lead to goods and services. Like, nothing's better than the public no having viable options to Facebook? Like, there's nothing better than few to no one investing much in creating social media alternatives.

Not every patent promotes progress of science and useful arts. Some -- you fcking moron -- actually work against progress of science and useful arts. Those bad patents include mechanisms to inhibit interopteration.

[Celticguy]

I did; probably 20 years ago? I loved MS Word when it came out. Easier to use; great formatting and it matched the same structure of MS Excel so you didn't have to pull out manuals and pay for training to use it.



What monster did they create? I don't recall the government having a hand in the creation and success of MS, Facebook or Google.

MS was born from the worst business decision IBM ever made. Letting Gates keep MS/,DOS. Govt was very interested in computers and shrinking them.
FB & Gooogle (etal) born of...
A personal computers aka MS
B the interwebs which were born of the Pentagon

FB was just an extention of the discussion portions of the early internet and search engines were also dreamed up there.

[Bobb]

MS was born from the worst business decision IBM ever made. Letting Gates keep MS/,DOS. Govt was very interested in computers and shrinking them.

IBM was under the boot of a consent decree. Antitrust laws had teeth back then, unlike the toothless laws today. They made their "worst" decision to keep government regulators happy. But, yes, a bad decision. They gave away the OS when they should have given away the hardware instead. But, I have 20/20 hindsight.

And, now it's time to gut IP protections that are used to lock out competition by monopoly powers.