> they [google] should pay license fees for the GPS technology
but you yourself don't pay for your own access to GPS - so why should google foot a bill?
> access to water/air.
there's no universally free access to water. And i imagine in a future dystopian world, air could be metered out for which you have to pay, or breath polluted air.
> having some explicit expiration date for service-monopoly as well as idea-monopoly.
i think this is just another way of having the gov't authorities nationalize assets. If google maps is so useful, and you can't live without it, they are by definition generating value and they needs to be paid, in perpetuity as long as said value from the service is being produced. It's actually somewhat amazing that they're able to sustain this value production fueled by purely using advertising and private data extraction/exploitation.
I mean, if you use farms as a example of your idea of expiration dates, it will start to sound like communism!
but you yourself don't pay for your own access to GPS - so why should google foot a bill?
> access to water/air.
there's no universally free access to water. And i imagine in a future dystopian world, air could be metered out for which you have to pay, or breath polluted air.
> having some explicit expiration date for service-monopoly as well as idea-monopoly.
i think this is just another way of having the gov't authorities nationalize assets. If google maps is so useful, and you can't live without it, they are by definition generating value and they needs to be paid, in perpetuity as long as said value from the service is being produced. It's actually somewhat amazing that they're able to sustain this value production fueled by purely using advertising and private data extraction/exploitation.
I mean, if you use farms as a example of your idea of expiration dates, it will start to sound like communism!