Tim Sweeney Quotes
Microsoft's intentions must be judged by Microsoft's actions, not Microsoft's words. Their actions speak plainly enough: they are working to turn today's open-PC ecosystem into a closed, Microsoft-controlled distribution and commerce monopoly.
Sweeney, Tim. "Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 4 Mar. 2016.
The National City Company was formed expressly as an attempt to dominate and monopolize the United States economy. It was a holding company that included Standard Oil, National City Bank, 16 other banks, and the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads among others, all controlled by the same 3 men--William Rockefeller, .James Stillman, and Frank Vanderlip.
At the time, the Chamber of Commerce represented the small and medium business which were being decimated by the large businesses and their monopolies. A century later, the Chamber became a creature of the large business and their money and by 2010, the Chamber had virtually become the representative of the large businesses outside of the high technology field and had become a campaigning arm of the Republican Party, In 1880 however, they called public attention to the abuses of the large corporate monopolies.
Here, an officer of a large corporation (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) makes the classic argument of large corporations about the anti-trust laws which prevent them from using their economic power to crush competition. The claim that the large corporations are at a disadvantage and handicapped in competing with small companies is easily refuted by the bankruptcy rate of small businesses which is large, and that of large corporations which is very small, and that of major monopolies which is virtually zero.
Timothy Dean Sweeney (born 1970) is an American video game programmer, businessman and conservationist, known as the founder and CEO of Epic Games and as the creator of the Unreal Engine, a game development platform.
