• anticurrent
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    4 months ago

    Mark my words! the outcome of this will be like a mountain giving birth to a mouse.

    Microsoft came out of such antitrust lawsuit unscathed and a decade later went back to pushing its browser down everyone’s throat.

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      4 months ago

      A mountain giving birth to a mouse? Is that a translation from another language? I’m not being critical, it’s just oddly specific and bizarre.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah it is a french expression, the english equivalent is " a long harvest for a little corn "

        Here is a link to read about it, its meaning and use and its equivalent in other languages : link

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      4 months ago

      What did we expect? There’s no “monopolistic competition” in an industry where everything depends on everything. We granted them a monopoly and now play whack-a-mole when that monopoly gets “too” big.