Let me see if I understand this correctly. You think that feudalism, a system where the land is wholly owned by a king and merely "held" by others like nobles or knights, is an example of a totally free economy?

Tell me something, if everyone was so free, what reason was there for restraining the king's power through the Charter of Liberties or the Magna Carta? And have you never heard of the Guild System? You are talking about a time where people weren't free to work/own the land as they chose or even decide their own occupation.

How do people come up with this nonsense?

Are you seriously comparing Google to a Monarchy? The only way that comparison could have any validity would be if they legislated for a competitive advantage, but so far their services just seem to be more popular by virtue of being more useful to people. When you talk about 'network effects' entrenching Google's position over a competitor such as Bing, are you referring to first mover advantage? If not would you care to elaborate? As it stands now your post amounts to an aspersion with no supporting evidence.

Probably the second one of these

Instill
transitive verb

1. to cause to enter drop by drop (ex. instill medication into the infected eye)
2. to impart gradually (ex. instilling a love of learning in children)

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Which is redundant, since in the case of a business being "too big to fail", it's always the government who bails them out...

You install Unity Tweak Tool (unity-tweak-tool is the package name) and go to the 'scrolling' section to make your changes. I get that it's not obvious but I wouldn't call it hard to enable legacy scrollbars.

This sounds like the modern-day lobotomy. I wonder how it will be viewed a few decades from now.

What if I don't want a bag of onions?

It is coming to the Linux world, at least through Ubuntu. Check out this tech demo, it's exactly what you are describing.

More people would be using Bitcoin?

That's not a fair example, considering that Texas Instruments abandoned the marketplace. My Nexus 4 came out in 2012 and would be affected by this too, except it's been updated to the latest software available.

Are the comments in this thread surprising? Nope.

Regulations are exactly what is used to prevent competition. Local governments create monopolies through what are called franchise agreements. Unfortunately most people get confused about that and blame unregulated markets. (others don't even know what a free market is!)

You think those XP users know that Linux exists? Most people don't even know what a browser is, and you think they are competent enough to seek out and install an operating system? Until you see preinstalled Linux boxes advertised heavily, mainstream adoption isn't going to happen.

I just found Wuala as an alternative. I'm not sure what kind of integration you are looking for but the interface is quite nice. They have packages for Ubuntu among other distributions, as well as an Android client. You get 5G of free storage and my favorite part is that they do client-side encryption unlike most cloud providers.