Here’s what a monopoly is.
If your corporation is a monopoly (or part of a duopoly, or a triopoly, or whatever), you can fire all your best staff, let your services degrade to hell, and you’ll still keep all your customers (and all their money) because there’s nowhere else to go.
I don’t really care that all the big cloud providers are corporations beholden to the USA. I care that there’s 3–4 of them. It wouldn’t matter where they were based if there were 100.
samir, actually the xkcd top hat guy
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