alt Hacker NewsYou're right that corporations and individuals make those choices... that's exactly my point. Microsoft's procurement team evaluating motherboard vendors is the market working. What I'm saying is that process produces better outcomes than a government agency mandating which cloud provider everyone uses. The problem isn't who makes the choice, it's when the choice gets made for you.
Gee, that's nice, but in this case they were deciding which cloud provider the government itself was going to use, not what provider you could use.