Anything good for is but not thier bottom li e: OH HEAVENS NO, THE EXPENSE!

Anything they can profit from: this is essential.

Same is actually true for most fossil fuel production now - only has profits because of subsidizing.

The folks profiting spend part of that profit to pay for politicians to continue the cycle.

Pretty much exacy argument much of the south made about ending slavery before the american civil war happened…

Yup. And it wasn’t money they would have gotten anyway so big N gets mad about nothing.

Doesn’t lose them money, the used game woudn’t make them money anyway which is why they lobbied to try and make reselling used games require a royalty or be illegal for years before everything became digital.

As for emulation they lie and call emulation itself illegal (the copies may be but emulation itself is not) because then they can’t pull a disney and “vault” old games on their digital storefronts and make you buy it again when they decide to just up shut down the previous server when they launch the next console.

They don’t want us to own the things we pay for. They want us to rent them while not realizing it.

Yup. And seconded.

Yes lets go right to pointing how linux lives and just completely ingore decades of history and the whole 1998 netscape mess.

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/browser-wars/

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years

Its not about simply being open source, its about the fediverse being the next to play the role of a forgotten company named spyglass in another round of the same old story. People are rightly worried that history will repeat and the 800lb gorrila that is big giant company here will use its bulk to screw over everyone else in the space.