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Aggressive isn't the problem. Illegal, immoral and anti-competitive was the problem.


I've yet to see a large company that wasn't illegal, immoral, or anti-competitive by the utopian-fairy-nerd standard.

That standard is more immoral than anything Microsoft ever did. It requires companies to kill themselves once they achieve too great a level of success.


But there can still be an order of magnitude difference between what these large companies do. Just because they all fall short of a "utopian-fairy-nerd" standard doesn't mean they're all equally reprehensible!

Reminds me of something pg wrote in "what happened to yahoo"

http://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

"It's hard for anyone much younger than me to understand the fear Microsoft still inspired in 1995. Imagine a company with several times the power Google has now, but way meaner. It was perfectly reasonable to be afraid of them."


> the utopian-fairy-nerd standard.

And this is how we got on the mess we are, when regard for what's right takes a back seat to how much money one can make.

No. I won't play by these rules.




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