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You are talking past each other. Markets can be free in principle but not in practice for various reasons (oligopolies, monopsonies, etc).
by damnyou 6y ago
You 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.