Dialectical virtualism?
The market has spoken, and the market prefers locked-down platforms and subscriptions.
I'll say in the same spirit that Margaret Thatcher said "there's no such thing as society" [0] that;
There's no such thing as markets.
[0] Please read the full quote (and for extra fun replace the word society with markets). Thatcher was saying something far more subtle than the sociopathy she is credited for. Markets have just replaced "society" as the ideological symbol of those who need something to get on their knees before, or blame.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/context-for-margaret-thatchers...
The people, voting with their dollars, have decided that they simply don’t care about privacy, libre software, etc as much as we wish they would.
"Markets" are like Father Christmas and "The Tooth Fairy"; a comforting one-dimensional idea that ought to serve us for a while, and then be discarded for a more mature perspective on the world. We must all try harder to find words that puncture the suffocating veil of "economic realism" that seems to hold back so much thinking.