That's a pretty good perspective; lemons to lemonade type of reasoning. If you have a centralization of talent and money, it easily leads to monopolization and

That's a pretty good perspective; lemons to lemonade type of reasoning. If you have a centralization of talent and money, it easily leads to monopolization and stagnation, but if you manage to sail against the wind, so to speak, and you coerce that gigantic cluster of capital into outputting open-source, interop-friendly tech, you've hijacked the monopoly machine for the common good. However, it _is_ sailing against the wind: if Google wasn't good at preserving the monopoly and we weren't bad at enforcing fair competition and regulation, we wouldn't be in this situation. By the way, what did you mean by "the corporate origin of governance"? Edit: I second the call for more discussion on this. I think parent is making a valid point that doesn't merit an off-hand rejection by downvote.