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by stretchwithme 5728 days ago
Can you imagine if government had tried to pick winning information technologies the way its now trying to do with electric cars?

Yep, its all over transportation. And you can see from the daily block long backup in front of Apple's global headquarters of cars waiting to get on the clogged highway 280 that innovative entrepreneurs aren't allowed to fix it.
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orangecat 5728 days ago
Can you imagine if government had tried to pick winning information technologies the way its now trying to do with electric cars?

For a real-world example see South Korea, where until just a few months ago government regulations mandated the use of IE for all commerce: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/01/korea.no.longe...

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stretchwithme 5728 days ago
wow, that's whacked. And that was in place for over 10 years.

And the reason was so you could have ActiveX verifying your identity. Yeah, bet ya Microsoft worked real hard getting the latest and greatest browser out for that market.

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