We need to see this in a deeper historical pendulum that swings (in the U.S.) between extreme tolerance of monopolies (railroad barons, etc, way back when) to extreme intolerance of them - the nadir of tolerance being the 1970's when Xerox was killed off for buying patents it was already using, and had been founded on! (Because that gave it now-exclusive rights to the tech.) We notice the change in how Silicon Valley is viewed because the good press was so very, very good; even when their conduct was not.