Can we like... stop building these ginormous conglomerates? Thanks.
Companies don't buy companies, they buy IP, as I understand it.
I’m not sure it would have that big of an effect. It would certainly help in some areas like search and social networks though.
Broadcom is paying for the huge enterprise customer base, sales and support connections, mindshare, and engineering org that has proven adaptable to market demands.
I would be shocked if every single 'big' tech company didn't use _some_ vmware product _somewhere_ internally. Their software portfolio is a hell of a lot bigger than just the actual vmware product. Example: where I work we use the vmware product Carbon Black for 'endpoint protection', which as I understand it is virus scanning + some amount of port monitoring.
You are quite wrong…
It’s like saying Taco Bell has incredible culinary secrets because it’s so widespread.
Of course, it goes both ways and laws often favor the strong against the weak. But it is not all one-sided.
That's called competition
Is that really the case? Does it work? Isn't Instagram basically cloning TIkTok right now? and cloned Snap before that?
Apple with Alfred, Spotlight, F.lux etc are also examples. Seems like for software, either patents aren't utilized or simply can't be enforced.
I only know VMWare from its days as virtualization software. I would put money on them having had a bunch of patents on the specific techniques they used.
Software patents sometimes work out, sometimes not. If I were king of the world I wouldn't get rid of them but narrow the scope down to protecting specific implementations, none of this "Buying stuff of the internet" pantenting that invested the 00s.
There is no reason for the west to allow Chinese companies to compete in their markets. Reciprocal market access or no access at all.
If western trade agreements forbid companies of a certain size from selling locally there is no alternative for Asian companies but to split or exit the market. We aren't helpless passengers on a worldwide economic joyride.
Also are you talking about Israel or Bangladesh? They are in Asia too.
it's not bizarre in the least if you consider any of the metrics that attempt to quantify corporate size and holdings.
Here's a market cap index[0], do you notice anything?
One thing that I notice is that every company in the top 25 is either American (.. or by some legal stretches, Irish) or from somewhere in Asia.
>Really didn't expect to see this dog whistling on HN.
"We can stop and let Asian tech giants eat us alive." is neither coded, nor suggestive -- nor is it written in such a way as to avoid condemnation or blame, It's a plain statement.
Can you describe how it's a dog whistle, and to signal which faction? I don't get it.
Asia is too vast for a group of people to be against the entirety, no? At least I haven't ran into the anti-Asia faction, yet; but I have ran into plenty of anti-country folks.
[0]: https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-b...
It may be inevitable but I think I have a solid idea to at least check its explosive growth.
The CEO and the board (includes President) ought to be personally civil as well as criminally liable for any actions of the employees, contractors, or agents of the company if they cannot prove that the employees, contractors, or agents acted against company policy. Elimination of the "right to work" is a precondition to this proposal.
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