In article , Andy Hall
wrote:
I've been in the IT industry long enough to have seen it all before. In
the 70s and 80s, IBM dominated, and to some extent DEC in certain sectors.
PCs became popular because users wanted to declare UDI from IT departments
and do their own thing. We see outsourcing coming and going. Another
fashion. It all runs on what people sell and what they buy. Fortunately,
governments have sufficiently little influence over that.

Fortunately the UE has more balls than the UK government and is more
effective than the USA courts.

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