[Markoff]

you buy your hardware, you don't buy the software, you buy the license to use the software according license terms

[b00ty4breakfast]

If the hardware wasn't locked down on so many devices, this wouldn't be an issue because people could choose to use a different OS.

[askonomm]

Right so by this logic, if I buy an electric car, and they decide to not let me drive on dirt-roads because the software won't allow me to and I need to ask special permission and wait 24h to be able to, that's also totally fine then, right? Do you not see the ridiculousness of this premise?

[Markoff]

if you have problem with this vote with your wallet and don't support HW companies doing this or talk to your MEP or other representative to change the current legislation, I'm just telling what's the current status quo, don't kill the messenger

[gabordemooij]

fine, but can you buy alternatives that run your software then?

[Markoff]

yes, you can, if you think running something else other than Android/iOS