"Hey, what's a good name for our company that makes switches?"
"ANU?"
"Yeah, sounds good! Let's buy the domain for our website!"
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"Hey, what's a good name for our company that makes switches?"
"ANU?"
"Yeah, sounds good! Let's buy the domain for our website!"
@siracusa I heard your concerns that lawsuits weren’t a great way to regulate company behaviour on @atpfm and I wondered if you had seen this article: https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/03/22/a-few-thoughts-on-the-apple-doj-antitrust-case-from-someone-who-isnt-riding-his-first-rodeo/
It suggests that a conviction and the threat of a bigger future sanction like break-up makes companies self-regulate.
So perhaps Apple will go further for the US because of a vague fear, than they will for the EU where they maliciously comply with the letter of an explicit regulation.
From 1995 through to about 2008, I made my living from technology journalism (we called it “computer journalism” then, because technology really was computer). That means my career almost exactly s…