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Modern Google is becoming the Microsoft of the 90s
And they'll make eleventy bajillion dollars in the meantime, plenty of money to pay their inevitable punitive "fines."
Hell old MSs penalty was giving free licenses in markets it never had a grip on, so its "lock 'em in!" model meant the "penalty" benefited them!
Which is funny and said because Microsoft is also the Microsoft of the 90s.
Microsoft is still like this