Think about this for a second or two….and then ask yourselves what you’re going to say when your grandchildren ask, “Opah…..when the billionaire fart-balloon Gates was stuffing his rivals, his former partners, his employees, the distributors and above all the consumer, what were you doing about it?” In my case, my pretty limp reply will be, “I was writing blogposts explaining how turning a blind eye to restraint of trade would eventually lead to every ‘unimportant’ human on the planet being restrained”.

Think about how you went to buy €330 worth of hardware, only to discover that all your choices about how to use that pc had been stolen by the greed of an awkward gargoyle whose operating system is little more than a computer virus.

‘Do you want to give us your location and telephone number so we can help you get more out Microsoft?’

‘No’.

‘If you don’t…