Do you apply the same reasoning for software that use javascript, the JVM, the CLR or some other kind of VM?

These are server CPUs, not something you wanna put in your laptop or desktop.

write only medium

I guess you meant “write once”?

Anyway, this won’t prevent attacks that somehow swap the CD being read, or the backend logic for where to read the data from.

You cited Git as an example, but in Git it’s possible to e.g. force-push a branch and if someone later fetches it with no previous knowledge they will get the original version.

The problem is the “with non previous knowledge” and is the reason this isn’t a storage issue. The way you would solve this in git would be to fetch a specific commit, i.e. you need to already know the hash of the data you want.

For the Wayback Machine this could be as simple as embedding that hash in the url. That way when someone tries to fetch that url in the future they know what to expect and can verify the website data matches the hash.

This won’t however work if you don’t already have such hash or you don’t trust the source of it, and I don’t think there’s something that will ever work in those cases.

Lots of major companies like Microsoft and IBM also contribute to Linux, it doesn’t make them saints nor even necessarily compare to what they get for using the volunteer dev work inside Linux.

Most of those companies actually contribute to the kernel or to foundational software used on servers, but few contribute to the userspace for desktop consumers on the level that Valve does.

CEO bonuses should be awarded 10 years after their mandate

The reputation loss is probably worse than whatever fine they end up paying

Time to pull a Meta/X and change name

Unfortunately some things will IMO always remain a natural monopoly. For example good luck trying to convince developers to write their apps for all those different operating systems.

Luckily Apple strictly controls the App Store and will never allow apps to abuse this, right? Right?

Epic chose not to try and compete with Steam on that front

Forget competing, they lack even the basics.