Rethinking Antitrust for the Cloud Era.

This article asks how antitrust can foster innovation by examining the development of infrastructure for data processing in the cloud. We contrast Amazon Web Services' centralized model with Google Cloud Platform's more decentralized, participatory ecosystem. We argue that rather than trying to redu...

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Publicado en:Politics & Society Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 409 - 436
Autores principales: Berk, Gerald, Saxenian, AnnaLee
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Sep2023
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