I’m reminded of the old saying: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

The same would hold true for any third party who isn’t physically in your presence at the time of need. You are your primary means of defense, with third parties as a backup…

Nothing better than your first brew…

Coming from the viewpoint that the greatest threat to free markets is the artificial beings created by government called “corporations”, I fully believe that some form of IP, appropriately time-limited and only licensable, not transferable, is a perfectly valid way to protect individual human creators, but that it cannot be granted to anything other than natural human citizens.

It’s not about prevention of use by others, it’s about prevention of monetization by others…

I can often dig into the source and quickly figure out what’s broken.

And for the 99.9% of humanity for whom that is either impossible, or a dreadful slog,

On Windows, I’m usually shit outta luck. Gotta trawl through tons of messy forums and bullshit SEO-optimised blogspam sites

While this^ is a practical option… This^ is a practical optionof hu

Well, I’ve made a reasoned response to someone’s post and haven’t been permabanned, so I have to assume that it’s better here than the authoritarian state that r/libertarian has become!

No true libertarian would say that!

Monopolies are the opposite of free markets. Even pseudo-monopolies are counter to free markets as they inevitably use their dominance to manipulate the markets in their favor.

That said, I feel like there are a lot of libertarians who feel like free markets are core to the philosophy, and about as many who believe that free markets are a nice-to-have, secondary to everyone doing whatever they want in the market regardless of its impacts.