The real antagonist of our times is corporate actors who have a single incentive: maximise shareholder value. It isn't even capitalism, it's corruption: it's not about a free market. It's about creating monopolies (market distortions) to exploit. We need to bring corps to heel.https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1059732906183217152 …
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Unless the non-profit sector (which I assume technically includes
#w3c,@LinuxFoundation) can operate independently from the for-profit sector, they will only ever be their handmaidens.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Nonprofits run on donations. If those include government grants, at least there's the possibility of wresting an illusion of independence by playing mommy against daddy.
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Academia has managed to preserve a sliver of academic freedom in this way, but the Long March of Privatization threatens that too.
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agreed. One would hope the leadership of these organisations would have anticipated that vulnerability and mitigated it...
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