Part of the point of the OP, as i understand it, is that theres also a cultural war going on, where if corporations end to get their way, by controlling/locking developers and users on their platforms, people will see this as normal.

This happened before with radio and TV signals. A great way to have peer to peer comunication, with local TV's and radios, ended up being regulated.. and in our culture, its normal to sit in front of a TV, and have a few monopolies to choose what we will watch.

And right now its unthinkable to revolt to those kinds of laws that forbid us to transmit content, as we accepted as normal (where's the cultural aspect of it, shaping our behaviour).

The same will happen to the next generations if we dont take a stand against this. Normal users wont understand the social, cultural and political implications of this. Companies like Apple defining what you can or cannot use, listen, see or install in your own device.