Technological self-determination
Competition is a means, not an end.

My latest Locus Magazine column is “Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability,” an essay about the goal of competition and its handmaiden, interoperability, namely, “technological self-determination.”
https://locusmag.com/2021/07/cory-doctorow-tech-monopolies-and-the-insufficient-necessity-of-intero…