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Easy. We don't "allow" things to happen. Things happen. Nobody went around the room and asked everyone if they could give money to facebook.

Outcome 1 is not a bad thing, it's incredibly good.

Uber wants to replace their drivers with self-driving cars. They've always been very open about this.

Which are by definition, the areas that matter to most people.

That's how patent licensing works (albeit a comically overaggressive caricature). Do you fundamentally oppose the concept of patents or do you think Microsoft is doing something else wrong by asking to be paid license fees by competitors using their patents?

Most of us don't see any reason to continue doing interesting things beyond making ourselves look appealing during courtship.

Twitter and Linkedin are huge competitors.

Sounds identical to the arguments MS used back in the 90s. They lost.

Because the people who do it don't think of it as giving up privacy and personal space. If your partner moved in with you, would you call that "giving up half your house"?

I think you have a twisted, corporate definition of "good".

If you see the appeal as only "looking for content," we are glad you stay out.

The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

No, people think that because it's bigger than everything else put together, the fountainhead of the site's culture, and is the source of virtually everything notable that's ever happened there.