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		briandear on Oct 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust ca... Windows isn’t open source. Perhaps Office and Windows should be broken up? They have far more market share comparatively speaking. The fact that most of the enterprise run on Microsoft could be more concerning than an consumer App Store.

shiroiushi on Oct 10, 2024 [–]

That would have been nice 20+ years ago, back when the US tried it, but the government shut it down just as soon as Bush took office.

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