|
|
Log in / Subscribe / Register

Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

Posted Mar 30, 2023 0:29 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism by archaic
Parent article: Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

This is relevant to software developers too, whom I consider to be creative laborers.

Google and Apple have chokepoints on software that they permit to run on their devices. Sony and Microsoft have similar chokepoints over their gaming consoles. The fact that general-purpose PCs, especially those running Linux, don't have such chokepoints is likely seen as a bug by corporations who would almost certainly love to change that.

In an anticompetitive market, free software will die because monopolies will have the power they need to kill it.

to post comments

Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

Posted Apr 20, 2023 14:44 UTC (Thu) by immibis (subscriber, #105511) [Link]

The war on general-purpose computers is absolutely not new, and has been covered on LWN before. It mostly centers around Secure Boot / TPM functionality. Microsoft very nearly succeeded in winning this war. They may still do so.


Copyright © 2026, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds