"The general-purposeness of computers – the fact that they are all Turing-complete, universal von Neumann machines – has created tech bosses' fortunes, but now that these fortunes have been attained, the tech sector would like to abolish that general-purposeness; specifically, they would like to make it impossible to run programs that erode their profits or frustrate their attempts at rent-seeking."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/#i-am-altering-the-deal
