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It's often said that there is a trade-off between privacy and convenience - while that's often overstated, there are some ways in which it is inarguably true.

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20 Oct
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Copyleft lawsuit against Vizio will allow anyone to defend the commons; The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars; and more!

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Copyleft lawsuit against Vizio will allow anyone to defend the commons: Software Freedom Conservancy realizes the dream of "Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement."



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20 Oct
#CapitalAsPower, a framework from @BichlerNitzan, holds that companies don't seek to be as profitable as possible - but rather to accumulate as much POWER as possible. A company doesn't seek to be as big as possible, but rather, as dominant.

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There are two strategies for accumulating power: one is "breadth": to grow the market as much as possible, thus accumulating profits faster than the average competitor, eventually taking a commanding lead over the rest of the field.

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20 Oct
When the free software movement started to make headway, proprietary software companies like Microsoft went to war against it, describing the licenses at its core (like the #GPL) as "viral licenses" to scare companies off from using free software.

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19 Oct
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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The #DebtCeiling debate is genuinely absurd: Congress authorized the spending of new dollars, so the Treasury has to create them. For Congress to turn around and force the Treasury NOT to create the dollars it ordered the Treasury to create is an obvious political gimmick.

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