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Its nice in theory that illegal things should be those that hurt people but as we all (?) know this is impossible in most cases. Cars hurt people, flight hurts people, working hurts people etc. But nevermind that, lets oversimplify to the extreme where even libertarians understand!
The question was not if microsoft is a democracy, dictatorship or a fucking papal state. The question was that for every anecdote you can produce from a "friend who works in the government" i can produce an anecdote from a "friend who works at generic company" and if these anecdotes are indicators of the properties of said org then they seem to share the same properties, ie generic company cant inovate itself out of a paperbag. See what i did there?
The state is the greatest inovator becasue the greatest inovations are if not organized so at least funded by the state. No state, no inovation. This list of inovations include communication satelites, internet, mobile phones, the transistor etc. And as i said earlier, for every government that works poorly i can whip up a government that works fine. Case in point, Sweden.
Some governments are bad yes. Do you want a prize for that discovery?
Thats a lazy opinion if i ever saw one. So you wouldnt mind to live in nazi germany as long as you where an aryan factory owner?