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by matheusmoreira 855 days ago
> Do you not consider the software part of the product?

No.

> By any reasonable measure, the software is the product, and the hardware enables that product to operate.

That's what they want people to believe. It's actually just a general purpose computer. They put "IP" on it and suddenly they own it forever and control everything people do and if you resist it's felony contempt of business model.