The "integrity" refers to googles bottomline!

You are looking from the perspective of a user of the software - sure, these have enough feature parity to "compete".

But that's the butt end of the equation. The real issue is enterprise administration. A user never thinks about this problem, because they do not ever encounter it as a problem in their private lives.

How does permission work? How does a new hire get an account? How does account/permission revoking work? How does audit work? And that's just the surface.

Needs for large enterprises, where you cannot just have John from HR make a new account for the new hire, are often not met by the opensource world.

Large enterprises were doing this stuff with Unix and mainframes long before Microsoft figured out what preemptive multitasking was.

And decided that it was cheaper and easier to just outsource it to Microsoft. Because doing it in today's environment - different work computers, backend servers, mobile devices, etc - is much more complicated than just managing permissions on a mainframe.

Distributed databases are a solved problem (besides maybe performance). Offloading account management to arbitrary databases too. Why everyone is using Microsoft is, because then they have someone to blame, instead of needing to point at themselves.

ActiveDirectory is million times better than any other solution on the market.

You do you. Last time I needed it, setting up libpam-mysql was fairly quick.

And setting up things like rsync to replace dropbox is also "fairly quick"!

The point isn't that but the fact that like a normal user, a normal business don't want to have to tinker with low level components to get the functionality they want. They desire to pay and get a working piece of infrastructure with low hassle (tho i get saying active directory being low hassle is weird).

> to vote accordingly

too many people are too comfortable - both with not voting, but also to vote blindly.

> we lose our democracy.

it's half-way into the grave imho.

It's hard to cancel popular shows for political reasons (at least in america) - it's too transparent.

But its possible to starve them of talent, funding and eventually let them wither into obscurity, by not promoting nor giving it the opportunity to flourish.

But there's still youtube even if these incumbent media outlets are compromised - independents can still create and distribute there. This is very different from the airwaves or cable.

> Saying party X plans to do something

but that's not the whole thing being said.

Party X may have been planning on something, but party Y threw a wrench in the middle, causing party X to have to make some response. By implication, party X believes party Y to be throwing a wrench, hence, party X must act. Therefore, party Y also must be planning something that counteracts party X's desires. If it weren't so, party X would not act (as that costs money).

The thing that contradicts Party X's desires can just be not doing the thing Party X wants done, it doesn't have to be doing an equal and opposite thing.

This seems like a variation on the fallacy of the excluded middle.

if you had the money to spare (and don't mind losing it), would you still not bet on them then?

I have very specifically invested in Defense funds that exclude Palantir both because I think it's overpriced and for ethical reasons.

Even if you have money you don't mind losing, there's plenty of options to choose from on financial markets and Palantir is just one of them.

So the question is still why Palantir and not X/Y/Z?

hence, the hypocrisy of the US being a "free market" yet choosing not to accept competition when it's not tilted in their favour.

I think the US should allow imports of such cars (provided they pass strict environmental and safety regulations - most of which i'm sure it already does).

It will stop the car giants from resting on their laurels. If it hurts jobs, that simply means those jobs are no longer competitively producing value; the competition therefore will become a forcing function for change.

It's not like foreign auto mfrs haven't already decimated the US auto industry. Ever since the 70s Japanese automobiles mopped the floor with USDM vehicles. My parents bought exclusively American cars until 1980, when they made the mistake of buying a brand new 1981 Ford Thunderbird. Utter trash. Never bought another American car again. Hyundai and Nissans ever since.

They didnt really suffer or they dont have choice?

> The fact that nobody did - or just verbally complained without action - is evidence that they didn't really suffer.

What an utterly clueless claim. You're literally posting in a thread with nearly 500 posts of people complaining. Taking action takes time. A business just doesn't switch cloud providers overnight.

I can tell you in no uncertain terms that there are businesses impacted by Cloudflare's frequent outages that started work shedding their dependency on Cloudflare's services. And it's not just because of these outages.

This has nothing to do with capitalism, and everything to do with regulatory capture and archaic rules established in a bygone era for a purpose that has since been outlived.

> There are people who are denied healthcare in Sweden because the govt has deemed that it’s too expensive to save them

but how many people are deemed too poor to save in the US, when sweden gov't would've easily have had the same medical procedure provided at low cost?