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>It’s hard to build markets with open source. Only if you can't create something valuable. But if it's not valuable, then it's not your property, it's worthles
by GoblinSlayer 7y ago
>It’s hard to build markets with open source.
Only if you can't create something valuable. But if it's not valuable, then it's not your property, it's worthless.
>Now, you get Android for “free” but only by turning your customers into the product.
Paid services still turn the customers into the product, e.g. Windows. Also Android is not open source.
>get to control the standard by fiat
Commercial dealers have a long track record of anticompetitive practices. It's the whole reason why antimonopoly law was written.
- GoblinSlayer 7y agofix: Android is cancer because it's a proprietary walled garden. Cancer is enforced through walled garden, and walled garden is enforced through closed source. Old tale holds true: proprietary software harms the customer and Android is a vivid example of it.