• PushButton@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Did you know horses were the only way to move around before cars?

    Did you know the US airline industry, and AT&T phone system were a monopoly situation?

    Do you remember when Dropbox, Docker were the only product that filled their niche spot?

    So, no, monopoly does not always win.

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      13 hours ago

      Of course I remember. There is no too big to fail, too.

      But that does not mean it’s not getting replaced by another one. That’s also a pattern. Or maybe the meta game changes, someone else has money and invests and holds a lot of smaller players. Still.

      For docker it would be Kubernetes and that’s Google.