alt Hacker NewsAnd if any of them decide they are better served by the current arrangement, the licensing problems remain.
You seem to be making incredibly banal observations.
And if any of them decide they are better served by the current arrangement, the licensing problems remain.
You seem to be making incredibly banal observations.
That's what governance is for, though. These laws can be changed to require collaboration or remove the artificial monopolies.
They haven't been because the people being hurt by it are way less organized than the people benefitting, not because things couldn't ever change.