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by jmodp 4607 days ago
>> Exactly which part of investing billions of dollars acquiring and developing a technology and giving it away for free, lowering the price of consumer devices, needs to be prevented?

The part where it ends up eliminating competition and results in a mono culture?

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It only results in a Mono culture if others are unable to compete.

Regardless, the world is better off with a mono culture around an OSS project than a walled-garden keeping everyone hostage to their whims.