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A free market is mutually exclusive with a ban on closed ecosystems. You are arguing against a free market.
by jakelazaroff 6y ago
A free market is mutually exclusive with a ban on closed ecosystems. You are arguing against a free market.
- damnyou 6y agoYou are talking past each other. Markets can be free in principle but not in practice for various reasons (oligopolies, monopsonies, etc).
- kstrauser 6y agoI think you're right. Although I'm with Apple on this one, in other contexts I've made the argument that I want my markets free as in GPL, not free as in BSD. That is, I want the market itself to be free, even if that means its participants have some restrictions. Actually, in this case I guess that means I like the restrictions that Apple's app store places on developers. Sure, lose the ability to publish malware and other profitable things, but that protects my ability to use it peacefully.