Reading this again something new jumped out at me:
> "I mean it as - software that doesn’t really care about the needs of
the user but rather about the needs of the developer."
No. The "developer" is often as much a clueless victim and tool of
other forces who misuse her work.
Malware, in it's broadest sense, has become an industrial scale
venture. Technological abuse exists at a system scale.
In some ways that's positive, because developers and end-users, being
much wiser in 2023 than in 1993 can unite against a common foe. But
that won't be easy. The key lies in building relations between
developers and end users that completely bypass the "at scale"
bandits.
> "I mean it as - software that doesn’t really care about the needs of the user but rather about the needs of the developer."
No. The "developer" is often as much a clueless victim and tool of other forces who misuse her work.
Malware, in it's broadest sense, has become an industrial scale venture. Technological abuse exists at a system scale.
In some ways that's positive, because developers and end-users, being much wiser in 2023 than in 1993 can unite against a common foe. But that won't be easy. The key lies in building relations between developers and end users that completely bypass the "at scale" bandits.