I don't understand the dissonance myself, though as I'm neither a developer nor a "hacker" of any sort that might affect my opinion. The desktop computer is th

I don't understand the dissonance myself, though as I'm neither a developer nor a "hacker" of any sort that might affect my opinion. The desktop computer is the most open computing platform ever developed and the first to reach the masses, and the way things are looking it will be the last; yet this is something the libertarian free-market capitalists here cheer? They complain about tech illiteracy but want to keep everyone in a state of learned helplessness? I just don't get it.