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Agreed. I love Amazon prime, and also love Slack. But I fear the day when all of the "good companies" end up being owned by one corporate overlord.

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That's nothing new...

Media:

http://libreria.sourceforge.net/library/Free_Culture/images/...

Food:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7KY4dEnHmnc/U9bkkriu8hI/AAAAAAAAD9...

A large share of media companies owned by a single conglomerate.

A large share of food companies owned by a single conglomerate.

A large share of retail, cloud hosting, and online messaging owned by a single conglomerate.

You're right that there's long been some serious consolidation in sectors, but those two examples seem a little different from Amazon grabbing up large portions of multiple sectors.

Also, I cannot think of a software technology that was created & shared by Amazon.

The dynamo white paper, for one.

Also: https://github.com/amzn

Which is not used by DynamoDB in any form or fashion.

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