Anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and doesn’t give you a key, that lock is not there for your benefit. - Cory Doctorow

The way out of a crisis was to deal with it as it was, not as you wished it were.

Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop.

And that's the real reason the powerful fear open systems and networks. If anyone can set up a free voicecall to anyone else in the world, using the net, then we can all communicate with the same ease that's standard for the high and mighty. [...]

And if any worker, anywhere, can communicate with any other worker, anywhere, for free, instantaneously, without the boss's permission, then, brother, look out, because the Coase cost of demanding better pay, better working conditions and a slice of the pie just got a *lot* cheaper. And the people who have the power aren't going to sit still and let a bunch of grunts take it away from them.