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@aeva @glyph Don't forget war. Capitalism always has war as plan C.

@tedmielczarek @glyph IBM tried to take back the PC market with the PS2. It was designed by lawyers to be copy-proof, in a proto-DMCA way.

The market just stayed with the old design and continued to improve it.

The lesson of the PC is that antitrust enforcement can freeze a monopoly long enough for progress to take place.

We wouldn't have a public Internet if you still had to lease a 1200 bps Dataphone from the Bell System to get online. Antitrust changed that.