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What they have to show us is two decades of not wasting time on problems someone else has solved. Capitalism at its finest.

Now someone has thrown a monkey wrench at the invisible hand, and they have to duplicate a lot of effort. They lose, we lose. But at least they've stopped tying their future to an unreliable business partner. Divorce sucks for everyone.



That's basically it isn't it? Try going to any institutional investor asking for money to build a sovereign replacement for Google Docs or whatever in the last 15 years.


People have tried and you're right, there wasn't a lot of buy-in.

It didn't help that these attempts were torpedoed aggressively by Microsoft, Google et al.




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