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- author: "Slavoj \u017Di\u017Eek"
- content: Millions of people still buy Microsoft software because Microsoft has imposed
- itself as an almost universal standard, practically monopolising the field, as one
- embodiment of what Marx called the 'general intellect', by which he meant collective
- knowledge in all its forms, from science to practical knowhow. Gates effectively
- privatised part of the general intellect and became rich by appropriating the rent
- that followed.
- id: f28e4511-a058-4544-8abb-af2561e7bb74
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