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		sirspacey on June 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Tea... Effectively yes. They sold to Salesforce for $30B, but they easily could have won the market if not for this move on Microsoft’s part.

eysgshsvsvsv on June 25, 2024 [–]

There is no could have been in reality. Laws of physics was not broken since Slack was invented. You are reducing a complex system of economics, technology, market, phycology, politics etc into a sentence "could have been". It sounds smart and logical but it has no existential relevance.

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