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>>vforgi+(OP)
This is quite incredible

Could you imagine if MS had convinced the govt back in the day, to require a special license to build an operating system (this blocking Linux and everything open)?

It’s essentially what’s happening now,

Except it is OpenAI instead of MS, and it is AI instead of Linux

AI is the new Linux, they know it, and are trying desperately to stop it from happening

>>nico+DE
Microsoft did thought. not directly like that because up to the 90s we still have the pretense of being free.

Microsoft did influence government spending in ways that require windows in every govt owned computer, and schools.