alt Hacker NewsYou say stuff like this, and then simultaneously complain when the US winds up owning the entire technology stack and being the predominate western superpower.
So which is it? Does scale not matter, or are you unhappy with the outcome of ignoring it?
Allowing the US to gain such soft power is the issue, not the size of a company. In fact, it would be even better for consumers if there were more standards and companies that compete by building against those standards. The fact that there is only one Microsoft is as much problem for the US itself as it is for others.
In any case, it's absolutely essential that the western world remove dependency on US technology.