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@ -6,4 +6,6 @@ Bloat monopoly is an exclusive control over or [de-facto](de_facto.md) ownership
Bloat monopoly is [capitalism](capitalism.md)'s circumvention of [free](free.md) licenses and taking advantage of their popularity. With bloat monopoly capitalists can stick a [FOSS](foss.md) license to their software, get an automatic approval (**[openwashing](openwashing.md)**) of most "open-source" fanbois as well as their free work time, while really staying in control almost to the same degree as with [proprietary](proprietary.md) software.
At the time of writing this if you want to compile so called "[open source](open_source.md)" [Android](android.md), you will need a computer with at least 400 GB of space, 16 GB of RAM (but recommended is 32 or 64), a [modern](modern.md) 64 bit CPU with multiple cores, and many hours of computational time. How long before we need a million dollar supercomputer to compile an "open source" program? Now ask yourself, is this still real freedom?
Examples of bloat monopoly include mainstream web browsers ([furryfox](firefox.md), [chromium](chromium.md), ...), [Android](android.md), [Linux](linux.md), [Blender](blender.md) etc. This software is characteristic by its difficulty to be even compiled, yet alone understood, maintained and meaningfully modified by a lone average programmer, by its astronomical [maintenance](maintenance.md) cost that is hard to pay for volunteers, and by aggressive [update culture](update_culture.md).