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martyb
on Friday November 09 2018, @03:31PM
from the startups-want-what-is-behind-door-number-3 dept.
from the startups-want-what-is-behind-door-number-3 dept.
Bloomberg has an article about how big tech sets up a ‘Kill Zone’ for industry start ups. They do it three ways, either alone or in combination. One is by spotting and copying novel ideas and then beating the startups to market though massive investments. Another is to hire up the best engineers and developers, starving the industry for talent. A third is by just plain buying the startups out, either to run with the product or to set it on ice. Regardless, the net effect appears to be detriment of innovation (however that may be measured). There aren't any clear solutions to the situation yet.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Friday November 09 2018, @06:11PM
The reason MS *could* do it was that IBM and Unix(AT&T) were operating with government handcuffs on. The better answer is to break up any company that captures more than, say, 15% of a market, and arrange the terms so that companies WANT to hit that magic number. 15% is a bit arbitrary, but 20% is too high for best results.
OTOH, for some projects you need the clout of a large company (or a government). So "strategic partnerships" need to be allowed (with extra government supervision).
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.