well yeah most of its operating software was derived from opensource projects, but capitalists exploited those opensource project without giving much if anything back, so…
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brecht/works/1935/questions.htm
Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?
And Babylon, many times demolished, Who raised it up so many times ?
In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ? Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?
Great Rome is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them ?
Over whom did the Caesars triumph ? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?
Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it, The drowning still cried out for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India. Was he alone ?
Caesar defeated the Gauls. Did he not even have a cook with him ?
Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down. Was he the only one to weep ?
Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War. Who else won it ?
Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors ?
Every 10 years a great man. Who paid the bill ?
So many reports.
So many questions.
Every single technology that went into the iPhone was developed with public money:
- Touchscreens
- GPS
- The internet
- Unix
- …
You know what is it that apple patented and trademarked? Rounded edges.
This is the case with pretty much all fundamental research because it takes a long time to do, and requires a lot of sustained investment without any direct profit. Companies simply swoop in at the end stages and start commercializing what was developed using public money.
I mean yeah but capitalism made it such that everybody needs a little fucking advertisement mind control spying machine in their pocket. Without capitalism I wouldn’t have a smartphone and if I did, I would at least actually own the thing.
Then, well, do? Don’t buy crapple or android? Linux-phones are out there. They can’t compete yet, but they’re yours. Like it always should’ve been.
If PCs would sell without admin-password and with an uninstallable windows, they wouldn’t sell very well. The imagination of that alone sounds so absurd to me.
