• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Just use what Bell had before: a monopoly on virtually all communication to pay for crazy ideas and irregular output. Also, stomp out all competition so no one else can make any discoveries of their own. Can’t have rivals muddying the history of who invented what.

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      28 days ago

      What that monopoly got us: The C programming language, UNIX, UTF-8, among others

      What the current tech monopolies yielded: yachts for the upper management