2026-02-16 22:32 UTC
@kirschner I think it has no choice but to to continue unless there people are forced to switch. Otherwise they will naturally go with what they know.
The downside to open hardware is that I think it will always favor whoever has the most money despite ideas that it will produce innovation. At this point I think the only way to combat that would be for governments to give an equal amount of the MS costs to legitimate open source developers.
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@fds@mastodon.social 2026-02-16 22:35
@kirschner Not to say that we should go back to closed system but tech monopolies have been allowed to go on to long. Ex: opening up the iPhone to other browsers will likely just add to the Chrome dominance which is worse than the Safari lock-in imo. So, I think we just need to accept the only likely way to fight the dominance is money at this point.