I agree. Monopolies are great for the monopoly, but inevitably cause less competition, and thus less innovation. It's really weird watching hackers defend the

I agree. Monopolies are great for the monopoly, but inevitably cause less competition, and thus less innovation. It's really weird watching hackers defend the idea of monopolies like Google now, at the expense of FOSS. It makes me wonder if Microsoft had been spending more money publicly buying startups back in the 90's if hackers would have defended them then.