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“Widespread Adoption” (Did You Mean: Takeover by Monopolies?)
http://techrights.org/2019/10/13/takeover-by-monopolies/ [techrights.org]
Summary: “Quite a few of them are people that would rather replace David with Goliath, just because he’s bigger. Quite a few are already taking money from Goliath.”
Story is something of a WOT, and it kind of wanders between the metaphysical and real life - but some may enjoy the read.
Robert Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues” tells the story of a man at the crossroads between this world and the next, “down on his knees” as he watches everybody else pass him. What’s holding “poor Bob” back? We assume it’s a deal he made with the devil.
Atheist Richard Stallman has a number of things to say about the devil — one is that Microsoft is not “the Great Satan” (though some of us aren’t as confident) and more recently, the FSF invited people attending Free software install-fests to consider a “deal with the devil” by including non-free software in their installs.
“The church did the same to Galileo for the blasphemy of saying the earth was round, and society did the same to Socrates. Now we do it to Stallman.”
