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Dude is against open source cuz "it mathematically leads to monopoly" while working for Microsoft.

There are lots of other galaxy-brain moments there.

"Single payer economies leads to bad things like Bolshevism and Stalin"

@UlyssesT@hexbear.net Let's hear your rant

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  • Monopolization of what exactly? The use of the FOSS software?

    It's not anyone's fault that FOSS is objectively superior in every way.

    • Monopoly is when my favorite tech giant doesn't own the entire market.

    • As far as I can tell, his argument is about the instability of distributed networks. The fact that they tend to collapse into centralized hubs isn’t a terrible observation and I’m sure there’s some relevant math about why that happens. It just doesn’t follow that monopolies form because of information exchange. Markets aren’t well modeled by simple networks.

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