bulb wrote:
floattube wrote:
I paid money for it. I will do whatever I want with it.
I am in 100% agreeance. Unfortunately the powers that be are not; and it looks like the trend to restrict the rights the public has through technology will continue.
infornography wrote:
it's this kind of corporate crazy-ass shit that increases the appeal of the FOSS philosophy even to the larger audience of not-so-tech-savvy normies. Anyway, TOP CHORTLE at this ignoramus preaching about the virtues of innovation while at the same time advocating for the kind of mindset that slows the pace of free technological progress
Do you think any amount of support FOSS can gain from this will matter in the long run, if legislation like Right to Repair isn't passed?
the thing is, even if this bill weren't passed, I don't get how such an approach to the economy as a whole could be sustainable on the long-term for the big corps themselves: as I understand it, draconian regulations as the ones they're trying to push now assume that every big corp is only out for itself and see the economy as a zero-sum game playground, but by doing so they're enforcing stagnant monopolies and killing the potential profits that come with a more dynamic competition between software vendors. also, their "piracy" problem is here to stay: first off, they wouldn't be able to suppress what they regard as "copyright violation" in an effective way, second: do they really think that the mississippi farmers are the main intellectual property menace? lmao, the main threat to copyright comes from the great china <3 and since it's rising to the next global superpower, their piracy problem isn't going away anytime soon so topkek and jokes on them.
and btw yeah FOSS isn't gonna become an existential threat to the corporate world in the foreseeable future, but the more things like that are gonna happen the more new people will join the movement and therefore the wider the free-open source software ecosystem will become for the sheer delight of all of us autists