The EU has accumulated enough evidence to charge Intel with antitrust violations, according to the Wall Street Journal. Anonymous sources quoted by the paper claim that EU lawyers have prepared a draft of their case against the company, but are waiting to make it public until after an interior panel of legal experts meets to consider the arguments in the document.
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Not all the computing powerhouses are in the United States. Most are, though, because historically, the US market system has been friendly to growing sectors such as technology.
The real question is, what heavy-handed governmental restrictions in socialist countries are responsible for discouraging the growth of computing powerhouses?
Yep it's all the evil socialists fault (*rolls eyes*)
Of course it has nothing to do with the billions which annually flow from the defence department into the pockets of technology companies for defence contracts.
Billions that led to small technological advanced like let's see the internet (and packet switching etc).
Another example : Oracle - "There is, however, more to the word Oracle: used for the name of the database engine, and then later for the company itself. Larry Ellison and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency in USA) where the CIA wanted to use this new SQL language that IBM had written a white paper about. The code name for the project was Oracle.
The project eventually died (of sorts) but Larry and Bob saw the opportunity to take what they had started and market it. So they used that project's codename of Oracle to name their new RDBMS engine. Funny thing is, that one of Oracle's first customers was the CIA..." ( http://orafaq.com/faqora.htm )
It's not hard to foster new technology when you're sinking billions into it.
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2005-07-06
Your real question ought to be why all the computing/internet powerhouses are in the United States.
Not all the computing powerhouses are in the United States. Most are, though, because historically, the US market system has been friendly to growing sectors such as technology.
The real question is, what heavy-handed governmental restrictions in socialist countries are responsible for discouraging the growth of computing powerhouses?