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Not disagreeing with you on it. But to stop google we'd need acts of legislature from multiple countries. At best we'll see results in 5 years.

MS can't wait that long for a maybe sort of kind of. Just being practical here.

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I think in monopoly playbook 2.0, it’s not a monopoly if it’s free. And it’s not a monopoly if your public relations are terrific.

I'd bet that we see a serious US antitrust investigation into Google within the next year. No new legislation needed.

No there won’t. The only reason why there was an anti-trust case against MSFT back in the day was because MSFT was too busy making and neglected to do political “contributions”.

Silicon Valley took noticed and now they are the top political “contributors”.

$100 to charity; I'll meet you back here in a year (or less)

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