Hopefully someone will do this soon, if the Epic store isn't this (or is this for just games).
Thanks for Droid-ify, I didn't know about that!
Ironically it is the fetish with free market economics that produces the monopolies. I wonder how many "techno optimist" libertarians are also cheering the fact that Apple has been forced by government regulation to allow competitors onto their platform.
Not really, it's the fetish with taking free market economics to the extreme. You can't really have a free market without regulation, though now we're getting in a GPL-vs-MIT-like argument of whether "free" means "without restrictions" or "with restrictions that ensure the desired outcomes are produced".
Indeed, as such the term "free market" is an oxymoron. Governments create markets, and the currency used to trade in those markets.
The definition of a free market is one without government regulation. There is no such GPL-vs-MIT debate here. Perhaps you are thinking of the term “capitalism”?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20market
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/free-market
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/free-...
Actually, there is, because I was able to find several other definitions that include minimal government regulation. This is also how most of my friends and family use the term.
only when there's not sufficient regulations from cartel like behaviour. At the risk of invoking the no-real-scotsman fallacy, i would say that a real free market cannot support a monopoly, unless said monopoly is taking as thin a cut of the profit as possible (thus leaving no room for competition as the initial outlay of capital would not be worth it).
And if that entity is superior to the market, then how can the market be "really free"?
The entity that regulates is not a participant in the free market. And free market does not imply anarchy - aka no rules.