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The oligopoly is not a "love affair", that's how IT works: prime mover advantage, "move fast and break things" (the first of them being interoperability), moats, the brittleness of programming...

The whole startup/unicorns ecosystem exists only because there is the possibility of becoming the dominant player in a field within a few years (or being bought out by one of the big players). This "love affair with oligopoly" is the reason why Ycombinator/HN exists.



I feel like posting this as if it's a given means you are unaware of history. Just because something exists now doesn't mean it is always determined.


It's not an intrinsic property of IT, it's a property of how we've built it and allowed it to be built.


It works this way because we, as a society, decided we wanted it to.


The society didn't decide that we want this. The society didn't decide that we want something else.


It's correct that these are political/economical decisions. But most people in society neither have the knowledge for an informed opinion on such matters, nor a vote.




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