How?

How does the current regulation 'protect' anything?

Let's say there's a network, we'll call it BOB. The BOB network currently owns local stations in major markets that add up to 39% of US households, the current limit. By preventing the BOB network from owning a broadcast station in another, smaller market - what evil are people protected from? As a note, BOB currently has a nationwide network of affiliate stations that carry BOB network content, and the BOB network is carried on all local cable companies (thanks to its affiliate stations) and streams its content over the internet, as is available on DirecTV.

What protection do you imagine limiting transmitter ownership provides? How, exactly is democracy being "dismantled"?

I believe, but can not confirm, that there are still limitations on station ownership in individual markets - for example, my imaginary BOB network couldn't buy every station in the San Francisco market, it is limited to just one.

As a reminder, EVERY CELLPHONE uses the same network as ATT, etc. no carrier has their own private nationwide cellular network.

That said, what does their existing infrastructure have to do with in-person store closures?

But just a few years ago...

https://www.wired.com/story/fb...

What are we talking about?

What's the issue?

What's the problem?

So the legal decision is...

But, it was OK in Washington DC on Jan. 6th because...

Oh yeah, the buffalo-headed shaman stole Nancy Pelosi's podium, and thus put democracy in America at risk because he (or she) that wields the Speaker of the House's podium rules the country!

Or something.,.

Well thanks for repeating them for us, so we could read them a second time before sharing your opinion that they are meaningless...

Taking out the parenthetical aside ",who owns 41% of the company," you get this:

Critics argue the service could let President Trump profit from early access to market-moving presidential communications.

How does this give President Trump "early access" to presidential communications? Doesn't all Presidential communication originate form him?

I suspect you meant customers will benefit from early access to presidential communication, but the difference will be trivial:

Milliseconds. To a rambling text message. Not actionable stock trades.

Antitrust?

Is EA a monopoly?

Is changing owners really that nefarious?

Seems like a real over-reaction, what pretext is there for the DOJ to try and block a private sale of EA to a consortium that includes an investor (Saudi Sovereign fund) that had $20BN invested?

Oddly, 80%+ of corporate users somehow manage to get work done in the windows environment day in and day out...

The most frequent comment I hear from non-technical users is "it's $150 and it comes with Win 11!, not I wonder if Linux will run on it?

What separates Linux from Unix from macOS?

Seriously, looked at one way they are very similar on one level but very different on another, just curious.

MS gave what, a five year warning? Even after their drop-dead date for support, support is available for free in certain use cases, for a small fee for those that don't meet the requirements, for another couple years.

As a reminder your win 7, 8/8.1, and 10 OEM and retail licenses qualified for a free upgrade to win 11 - and they have for years.

Owners of ten year-old windows computers fare much, much better than Mac owners of 7 year-old systems or, more dramatically, any intel-based Mac. Apple drops hardware after 7 years, but no one cares. Apple dropped EVERY intel-based Mac, just like they dropped all PowerPC Mac's and Motorola Mac's before that, but no one cares...

I've lost track of all the municipal governments that proudly announced their plan to move off Windows, only to unceremoniously go back to windows a few years later... Now we'll get to see this on a large scale as EU countries try and figure out how to be less dependent on US software like Windows and MS office...

With a stated 10.65% of desktop market share in North America, is Linux REALLY "firmly in double-digit territory"? It is 0.66% away from being firmly in single-digit territory, is that "firmly" double-digit?

Linux fan boys just can't contain their excitement and over-claim accomplishments like this - the way Linux hit 10% was by redefining what "Linux" is and is not in their data:

MS revenues are based largely on OEM software licenses AND Software Assurance licenses - the latter is when GM pays an annual license fee for several hundred thousand windows licenses, copies of MS office, servers, and databases and you local school district pays for a couple thousand licenses annually.

But really, the big bucks are in Azure, largely running Linux instances "in the cloud"...

Independent end-user licenses are nice, but it hasn't been a major source of revenue for MS for a while.

It's not "weird", he just couldn't accept that he put his selfish greed over "benefitting human civilization and knowledge."

He spent years building a very useful skill set, then chose to use it to generate ad revenue for his employer. His choice, he could have focused on "middle out compression."

Mission accomplished?