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Stand back... I'm going to write some code.

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kuijsten honked back 20 Apr 2024 12:22 +0200
in reply to: https://fosstodon.org/users/drewdevault/statuses/112297905352264969

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Corporations hold more power than individuals: they have more resources (e.g. money), more influence, and, in a sense more fundamental to the software itself, they retain in private the tools to understand the software, or to modify its behavior, and they dictate the conditions under which it may be used (e.g. only if your license key has not expired, or only for certain purposes).

True, but they don't necessarily hold more power than the collective. If enough individuals stop giving money to the corporation it's power declines.