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linuxhansllast Friday at 7:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Nice. Someone is doing something. Apple's app store monopoly together with a 30% commission is a modern form of way-laying.

Meanwhile Google is trying to go the opposite way with mandatory developer registration/verification. In the US we will likely let them. Who needs freedom if there is money to make (and Google is just making a fake security argument.)

It shouldn't be that hard to do with my phone what I want, including accepting the consequences of my actions.


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esperentlast Friday at 11:41 PM

> a modern form of way-laying.

The best phrase I've heard used to describe this is "techno feudalism".