https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/economics/ Recent content in Economics on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/who-pays-for-the-software/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/who-pays-for-the-software/ Part 3 of 8. The first two posts looked at what dependency costs you; this one at who else foots the bill. Open source was fought for about 15 years, then taken up, and much of it is now kept going by people paid nowt for it. And how the firms that build software get bought, borrowed against and stripped of what other folk built. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/the-same-pattern-elsewhere/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/the-same-pattern-elsewhere/ Part 7 of 8. This is not really about technology. Four firms control most of the world's seed supply and licence terms can stop a farmer replanting; ten retailers move most of Britain's food. Both got a legal answer, a Groceries Code Adjudicator here and an unfair-trading directive across the EU. Software has nowt like it, and this asks why.