Take It from a Software Engineer: Big Tech's Monopoly Is Stifling Innovation

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How can you say this? We get all kinds of services for free, or very cheap. The most valuable service, search, is free.

Honestly, if Microsoft didn't stifle innovation from 1995 on, nobody else did. At least there's competition between the tech giants today.

I hate to kill the messenger, but this does appear in Newsweek. This smacks of old media jealousy of newcomer's success.

Not in the long run. I am sure Big Tech's incredible success will inspire many entrepreneurs to start companies that will eventually replace them.

Big Tech is big enough to be buy any rising domestic competition. The only way entrenched tech companies like Standard Oil, IBM, AT&T and Microsoft have been replaced is through government action

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