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I'm not sure how that drives monopolies though. All you've explained is how it lowers the barriers to market, but it does so for all companies, competitors incl

• Skunkleton 3y ago
  It lowers the barrier to market for the end consumer product, but all of the stuff in between is gone. No more compiler vendors, or xml libraries, etc.
  • naasking 3y ago
    Are you implying that's a bad thing? Your argument sounds an awful lot like, "but all of those middlemen are gone", which is generally considered to be a good thing that results in a more efficient market overall. Is there some benefit to having compiler vendors or xml libraries guarded by paywalls? This is non-obvious to me. The days before the FSF and gcc were considered "dark ages" to programmers, being locked in to a small set of proprietary of compiler vendors and toolchains, fragmentation everywhere with poor portability and poor hardware compatibility. Yet you paint this as somehow a good thing and I'm struggling to see why. I'm also still not seeing how the openness helps establish tech monopolies, which was the main point I took issue with.