They are behaving as if someone promised them to outlaw FOSS operating systems.

I hate the word “inventor”

You can be killed with steel, which has a lot of other implications on what you do in order to avoid getting killed with steel.

Does steel fuck it all up?

Centralization is a shitty backwards idea. But you have to be very conscious of yourself and your instincts to neuter the part that tells you that it’s not to understand it.

Distributivism minus Catholicism is just so good. I always return to it when I give up on trying to find future in some other political ideology.

Especially since calling a laptop “<some>book” is hardly a civilization-level achievement, hardly even an idea, it’s fashion and I approve of Chinese treating trademarks like this.

I think trademarks and patents should die. We’d see a better world without them, and very quickly.

It’s still more like a townsquare with everyone talking than like a bunch of thematic pubs, so - doesn’t feel the same.

Not exactly.