> Microsoft had a good licensing model that sort of worked.
Microsoft is the second-most valuable company in the world, with revenue comparable to the GDP of a small country.
Seems like it's still working quite well.
Microsoft is the second-most valuable company in the world, with revenue comparable to the GDP of a small country.
Seems like it's still working quite well.
Microsoft is as big as if is today because it broke the law in the past and avoided severe punishment from the DoJ.
The law they broke is of the type where you can't be known if what you're doing is allowed or not in advance. Dictatorships love these sorts of laws, but unfortunately in the West companies are made to deal with a bunch of them
one could say the same about exxonmobil, chevron and haliburton
The problem isn't big corporations, the problem is regular, everyday people.
these companies spent a whole century destroying public transport to sell more cars. they spend that century spreading propaganda about cars, bribing politicians (or lobbying as you like to call it), and completely redoing the entire infrastructure of a major world power for... more money. you cannot blame the people being exploited for having to buy into a system they cannot do without, in a country where public transport is just a hollow imitation of itself from the past. again, they spent trillions to get things how they are now! government propaganda since the red scare hasn't been as effective as this.
Stop blaming this on "the corporations". The people are the real problem here. They wanted to move away from the Black people and have redlined suburbs away from them, and this is what they got. Euclidean zoning is entirely a local issue, not something forced on everyone by lobbying.