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by steve1977 219 days ago
Yeah but what is different now is that the US is run by unpredictable lunatics. It's not really just about Microsoft anymore.
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And the more important thing is just how much damage those lunatics can do through Microsoft using American laws -- even current ones, much less new ones. Microsoft would be a mostly helpless puppet in this entire exchange; a cat’s paw, as it were.
Yes, given how fast Amazon and Apple rolled over it's clear they don't stand a chance. It's not like they can teleport Seattle out of the USA if they had to.

I wonder how big a fraction of the US tech and Military industry realizes that Trump is killing their business for the next century.