[joshmarinacci]

How does this technical issue affect the economy and politics? In what way would the world be different just because we used a better linker?

[m463]

Well, you could just look at things from an interoperability and standards viewpoint.

Lots of tech companies and organizations have created artificial barriers to entry.

For example, most people own a computer (their phone) that they cannot control. It will play media under the control of other organizations.

The whole top-to-bottom infrastructure of DRM was put into place by hollywood, and then is used by every other program to control/restrict what people do.

[drowsspa]

That was the point of the successive questions in the second paragraph...

[nacozarina]

existential crisis: so hot right now