Brent Simmons, whose calm, measured voice is a pleasure in both text and audio, has written a great rebuttal of a bullshit opinion piece. Whether you’ve been following the public debate around Apple’s recent gross rent-seeking behavior or not, this is a pretty good summary of the “argument.”
Which, as usual in our culture, is between brutish, reductive patriarchs who have no idea what they’re talking about but think tough, bad-dad tirades against being “whiny” and “needy” are anything other than callousness; and calm, measured voices experiencing active oppression and exploitation by systems of power, who have figured out what the problems are, and who just can’t get anyone in a position of undeserved authority to listen, let alone change.