BlackBerry infrastructure in India set for takeover by govt

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/blackberry-infrastructure-in-india-set-for-takeover-by-govt-telecom-ministry/1082515/

by test001only • 13 years ago

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mtgx• 13 years ago

Sigh. One company alone can't fight against this sort of moves by governments, whether it's Blackberry or even Google, Microsoft or Apple.

The only way they might have a chance is if all the major tech companies form an alliance and stick together to protest against such actions. Imagine a government trying to do this, and then seeing Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon, Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry and others saying they will take their business elsewhere if that happens. That would freak out pretty much any government.

Unfortunately, instead of doing that, they stab each other in the back, and are happy when the government does that to a competitor, because they see that as an "opportunity" for them to take over (much like Microsoft did in China when Google tried to stand against censorship there and threatened to quit. It didn't help them anyway, as Baidu took all of that market share they were hoping to get with Bing). If they don't stick together, the web and their businesses will suffer in the long term.

BlackBerry infrastructure in India set for takeover by govt

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