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We sold you the car but don't you dare look under the hood, 97% of problems that these cars come with may one day be solved by us. Someone else may be trying to
by someguy342432 11y ago
We sold you the car but don't you dare look under the hood, 97% of problems that these cars come with may one day be solved by us. Someone else may be trying to build the same car you already purchased from us! Why didn't we obfuscate access to the engine? Well that would have required some of the same effort it would have taken to write more secure software err make better cars in the first place! What do you take us for, competent!
- vonmoltke 11y agoI'm just waiting for the day some physical product manufacturer has the chutzpah to try to apply the "licensed, not sold" paradigm to a tangible product.
- emodendroket 11y agoJohn Deere is already doing this and nobody really cares.
- vonmoltke 11y agoYou mean nobody outside of farming. From what I have read, the smaller farmers who have to deal with that shit certainly care.
- emodendroket 11y agoWell, no, not really. I mean, I'm sure some small farmers do care, but they're a vocal minority in the same way people posting on Hacker News about various computer-related ills most people are unconcerned about are a vocal minority.
- qbrass 11y agoThat's what leasing is for.
- bestest 11y agoWell. It's kind of happening already. Some "tangible" product manufacturers create products that fail at a specific time in the future, usually after the warranty is void: great examples may be seen in the automotive industry, for example (won't get in to details -- don't want to sound like a conspiracist). We'll never know, of course, if that is intentional, but it is happening quite widely.
- jrnvs 11y agoYou mean like an electric car which you can only "buy" with a rental contract for the batteries? One which comes with DRM that allows the manufacturer to remotely stop you from charging your car as they see fit? [1] Or perhaps the smartphone you "bought", which tracks everywhere you go and doesn't allow you to install your own software. As proprietary software with DRM invades deeper into our daily lives by becoming part of all the appliances and tools we use, we will no longer have the freedom to use "our" products as we see fit. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-co...