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by fsflover 2040 days ago
If you computer places artificial restrictions on what you can do with it, then it's company participates in the war against the general-purpose computing.

If it's a technical limitation, it's a totally different thing.

I'm sorry that you do not care about the freedom of users. Users who do not know about all these things suffer from unlimited power of developers [0] and cannot do anything to escape various walled gardens and traps of proprietary systems [1].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/important

[1] https://stallman.org/apple.html. Even if the wording there is not perfect, what is listed there is facts.

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There is a time and age for flower power, rainbows and cheerful music, and I am long past that.

Do you want to do something proper? Start by not using any software with MIT, BSD or any kid of similar licenses then.

Do the walk that follows the talk.

Staying away from the proprietary software is already hard in practice (I'm trying hard, works in 95% cases). Not sure if staying away from those licenses will help more.