Depends on what your definition of winning is. If we reach a state where it is literally impossible to run your own software without heavy hardware modification, which would exclude 99.9% of users, that would be like big tech winning in my book. That’s why right to repair is important, and we probably also need laws to prevent OEMs from disallowing the use of alternate OS.
Big tech can’t win because you can’t force the internet to do something.
Gilmore’s quote was true then, it is not the current state of play.
If you need to use banking/government/transit apps, you need to play by the rules now
You can hide root/fake play integrity.
They can make it so much harder to do that, to the point where almost everyone just gives up.
They don’t need to make us do anything. They just need to make it too inconvenient not to.
Depends on what your definition of winning is. If we reach a state where it is literally impossible to run your own software without heavy hardware modification, which would exclude 99.9% of users, that would be like big tech winning in my book. That’s why right to repair is important, and we probably also need laws to prevent OEMs from disallowing the use of alternate OS.