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		ascorbic on July 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Micro... Even if they were both open standards it wouldn't affect this. The issue here is pricing, and specifically bundling. There's no way anyone can compete fairly when Teams is bundled with a seperate monopoly product.

threeseed on July 22, 2020 [–]

a) Office isn't a monopoly.

b) Slack could just build their own Office suite. Google did.

michaelmrose on July 23, 2020 | [–]

Nobody on earth is going to switch to slack office.

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