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Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (with Cory Doctorow)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

How to Break Up a Tech Company

Do you think that tech companies should be broken up? Yeah, the answer is often, but that it's hard and the devil is in the details. If I were going to go through like a hierarchy of breakups, I would say, well, let's start with the firms that obtain mergers under false pretenses. The test should really be if you see that a company is behaving badly, is harming us because it is big,. If it's bigness is what harms us.

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