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by mhh__ 2120 days ago
It's not about maliciousness it's about owning the machine. If you bought a radio in the 1950s, you could take it to bits and fix or upgrade it. You can't do that's with today's software.

It's not comfortable for companies but it is a simply better way of doing software development both ethically and in terms of quality.