Melançon Enterprises • a multidivision multinational since 1980

We Should Be Allowed to Unlock All Our Stuff - http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/you-dont-own-your-cellphones-or-you... See also https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html and http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

[very disorganized and the tangents need to be re-planted elsewhere but there's good stuff here]

An unabashed Milton Friedman acolyte made the point (a quotation?) that as long as exchanges are freely made between people, the net benefit has to be positive by definition.

Yes-- exactly-- but-- and there is a huge but-- there's little practical difference between a force-coerced exchange and an economic-coerced exchange. Indeed, it's the history and present of inequality to use force to back up the imposition of economic injustice.