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Luckily it's not the same body in the EU who's in charge of enforcing AND setting up proposals.

The EU is not a "one opinion" government body.

They usually sue if the practice doesnt stop for over a year. They do send warnings before anything official comes out FYI.

But I dont know if they want to do anything though. No one but them and Apple knows for sure.

Google hit by EU lawsuit in 3.. 2.. 1..

The Austrian military didn't just adopt LibreOffice; they actually contributed back to it. Over five person-years of development work went into adding features they needed. Those improvements are now available to everyone using LibreOffice, which is pretty cool.

The open source dream!

Great points.

I think when we talk about these ideologies, the point is often being made, that it's not true socialism for example.

Which I personally think is not that relevant to go into, because we dont have true democracy either. Nor true capitalism.

It is also hard to have internet debates about them, because the topics are so complex to understand when they are in use.

Even to understand how the Nordics work and why, cant be explained with all the characters available in a post.

I think there's a middle ground. It's not all or nothing.

We can have million dollar studios without having a billion dollar studio.

That's true, which also illustrates how absurd the big paychecks are with your post in mind.

So it could be called socialist if you look at certain aspects of the economical foundation.

They DO have no ownership of private companies, which is socialist thinking, but they also dont have private ownership for the people, which is not.

But North Korea is special. They call themselves socialist, but in reality they invented their own ideology called Songun. It means "military first".

The "spirit of the law" in socialism is also for the country to work for the people. But you can argue with Songun, every single thing is done for military power. Not power to the people - nor for the people.

So yeah, North Korea calls themselves socialist (because they like to be friends with China), but they act like a authoritarin military dictatorship - or Songun.

Sure.

The premise is to bring down costs, and not be free. This is a reality where we can share media we buy, because we own them again.

So you can kind of imagine the world 20-30 years back with VHS and DVDs. Just in the digital world.

Fewer people would buy the content, and less shareholders will be rich. Actors will also not go for multi million dollar salaries. But actors would still exist.

You can argue that this will bring down the number of movies, but most likely there will just be alot of small studios making movies instead of Netflix and Disney controlling the market from start to end.

There will be a much larger varaity in movies, and not that many reboots of past succes from the VHS/DVD age.

That's like saying "which of the orange and the apple is not a fruit."

But to try to answer what I think you are asking, North Korea is a communist dicatorship controlled by one family. Kind of how Kings worked in the old days.

And China is an authoritarian one-party state.

North Korea does not have a privatized sector. China does. North Korea is not socialist by definition, and China is.

Sometimes it's hard to imagine a reality outside our own.

Putting China and North Korea in the same booth shows how little you know about this subject.