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We need to start treating software like Science. Open standards, Open source, collaborative development.
It's a ridiculous situation that a single company gets to own and control the vast majority of the desktop computing market. This single point of failure has been responsible for an enormous amount of cybersecurity issues and spying.
The quicker the EU countries break that monopoly the better off the entire world will be.
Those trillions of dollars being poured into US tech companies is a large part of why they're able to capture all of the political system and transition the country into this neo-fascisim that we're seeing now.