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> If the result of this case is "you can have a monopoly as long as your device and ecosystem are 100% locked down", that's terrible! One could hope people wou
by worksonmine 3y ago
> If the result of this case is "you can have a monopoly as long as your device and ecosystem are 100% locked down", that's terrible!
One could hope people would despise such a company and the market would fix it, but humans have proved the opposite. I've stopped trying to educate people and lost all faith in humanity. Most of them just don't care, as long as they've got their shiny stuff.
- rpdillon 3y agoThis is precisely my experience as well. I think what's happening is that everybody wants authoritarian control, and in fact prefers it, right up until the authority makes a decision that runs counter to their needs. But by then it's too late. It reminds me of the Newburgh Letter, suggesting that George Washington be declared king after winning the revolutionary war. It's like they missed the whole point of the exercise.