Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

I have a somewhat dislike of CD... BUT, while he's involved in the book, the article is incredibly on-topic and calling it "political activism" is a bit like Wernher von Braun saying "WWII rockets were very successful, they just landed in the wrong place". Opensource/Linux has been key in proliferation these types of "societal weapons".

Yes, the entertainment industry was infamous for their creative book keeping almost from the start but due to technological constraints, was somewhat contained (proliferation/distribution was expensive; micropayments not possible due to that expense). Micro-pay is key to all of this and the volumes involved make hiding the details easy.

The mantra of "move fast/disrupt/break things" allows for even more lack of responsibility in the area.

FOSS/freedom is about about the impact that freedom has on the world around us, not just the freedom to code what you want.