Unity's Plan Won't Work, but Someone Else's Will

But the next Morning soon reveals the Cheat,
When the same Toils we must again repeat;
To the same Barns must back again return,
To labour there for Room for next Year's Corn.

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Links to online works quoted from:

Videos:
   • Unity's New Pricing is...  Awful  
   • CTRL+ALT+DEL | SLA:3  

Articles:
https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/03/in-...
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/re...

Also cited: Russell, Bertand. History of Western Philosophy, Unwin University Books, 1961.

Links to other shown or mentioned online works:

Videos:
   • Griftonomics: Why Scams are Everywhere Now  
   • I can't stop buying weird ads (& getting s...  

Articles:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06...
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-6...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardm...

Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/prod...
https://scribepublications.co.uk/book...
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/45179...

Other reading:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/...
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/09/ac...
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/co...
https://www.whatworks.fyi/p/gone-meta
   • Unity Developers Are Scared for Their Future  
   • The Unity Drama (A Dev's Perspective)  

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:00 Technofeudalism, in a nutshell
7:15 Unity
10:12 Conclusion