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Hmm, all these news just tell me the winning strategy is no longer being generous like it was in 00s, where free/open source/access exploded, rather selfishly s
by bitL 9y ago
Hmm, all these news just tell me the winning strategy is no longer being generous like it was in 00s, where free/open source/access exploded, rather selfishly secretively keep all information to your advantage to yourself. Not sure I'd like to live in such a society. Can't wait to have enforced-by-automation toxic daily life.
- alexasmyths 9y agoThis is the way it has always been. The Valley is a paradox of open/fsf types and mega corps which can simultaneously be very good and very evil. Google's ownership of the web could enable them to do a zillion evil things if they wanted to, which they don't. Google could easily control the outcomes of elections. They could easily sell companies the ability to change how their company is perceived, rankings etc. Granted some of that may actually be illegal, but I think if G were a regular corp they'd have tried to do some really bad things. That said, I do think they do some bad things. So it's a paradoxy kind of thing.