If large corporations have zero empathy for their competition, why do they have such an easy time coordinating raising grocery prices well above the free market optimum?

Large corporations are owned by capital holders. Often it's the same set of capital holders owning different corporations because they've diversified their assets. It is not in the interest of their owners to have a free market race to the bottom.

So they make deals. And when socialists force the government to forbid those deals, they find Schelling points where they can make deals without making deals. It's not collusion; it's covid supply issues; ask anyone. And with neoliberal/neocon dismantling of regulatory agencies they can just do it.

So they have empathy for other large corporations. But it goes further than that. At least for now, capital assets are still managed by people. Those people are flesh and blood. They eat, they socialize, they make friends, and they care about their friends and acquaintances. And this caring is embedded into the choices that they make at work, where they compete against their friends and acquaintances.

So large corporations have empathy not just for other corporations, but also for rich people in general. Golden parachutes, nepotist appointments, favors, massively overpaid C-suite execs and expensive consultancy jobs from each other's hobby projects.

Corporations bleed trillions of dollars for the sake of empathy with their competitors and with private individuals, they just won't accept a competitor to bourgeoisie hegemony.

Classic Monkeyballmer

why are people that are building FOSS software not using FOSS software to build it? Gitlab? Forgejo?

Self hosting email is HARD if you aren't an expert but I figured it out. It took a while to get it stable and usable but man it has felt so good being in control of my email. Worth the effort. I use mailu, which is docker based. Works great.

Because complacency. That's all I can think of.

Doesn't he live in Moscow? So it might just be due to the sanctions.

Because users don't use it.

Well now i know Linux is ready to switch over to.

Thanks Microsoft!

EU should really create rule to use only EU FOSS tech for goverment services. For all member states.

Gitea (and hopefully Forgejo as well) really is.

I can vouch for Forgejo, it is pretty easy.

People are complicated and FOSS isn't as simple as all or nothing.

Sometimes people have things setup before they discovered FOSS - it's hard for me to give up my gmail account from age 14, even though I run my own domain now.

Sometimes FOSS gets captured - Microsoft owns githib now, which makes tough decisions for all the projects hosted there.

Thanks for the reply, cheers.

Or the terrifyingly-random bullshit that happens when someone chooses to depend on a free service such as Hotmail as their primary mission-critical address. (This article is about the developer getting locked out of their Hotmail, and the generally-broken state of Hotmail’s account recovery process.)

That could be it. What is certain is that these big corps really don't want to pay human beings to sort out issues so if you get caught in the middle of some BS you may have no recourse out of it.

I think it would be worthwhile, and probably help some people.

This is what I did. I set up autoresponse giving out an address that redirects to my new email address. My parents called me to see if I was hacked. Everyone else just started using the new address.

We really need some consumer protections around emails.

Imagine if your landlord could just intercept your mail on the same way.

It's part of our identities.

We're living in the Wild-West of the internet

Id argue it hard to set up, we not hard just lots of interconnecting pieces, but once you are going it's very easy to maintain. I just set up an email server from scratch in a about a day.