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by Razengan 1737 days ago
> The pioneer of software dictatorship

Consoles were doing that shit way before, unless you redefine what counts as “software” or “dictatorship”

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I do think consoles should be required to be open (as I think all phones should be), but I am sympathetic to the idea that consoles are somehow in a different class than phones or desktop/laptop computers. Consoles feel like purpose-built game machines, whereas phones feel like general purpose computers, albeit small ones.

Really, though, I don't have a good reason why I think it might be ok to lock down a purpose-built game machine. So maybe that's just not ok either.