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Now lets use part of that money, to fund the development of open alternatives and interoperable protocols / standards. We cannot break a duopoly, if there aren't any alternatives, otherwise it will keep being a duopoly.
4 billion can go a very long way.
Believe it or not, straight to data centers
Datacenters are not inherently bad...
So what you're saying is.. they're inherently bad.
We are talking about developing alternatives to US services, which, surprise, will need datacenters to run. You don't provide email to 700 million people from an old laptop in a basement.
100% agree