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How Software Stifles Competition and Innovation

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Factoring the slowing up of startups.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 66, Issue 10
        October 2023
        110 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3625456
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        • James Larus
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