I still believe you're opting into buying the product. That's an active choice on your behalf - noone is forcing you to buy something that is created within a c

I still believe you're opting into buying the product. That's an active choice on your behalf - noone is forcing you to buy something that is created within a certain set of parameters. Expecting those parameters to be different to those of the creator just because it's a physical product is somewhat illogical to me. I fully agree, we're lucky PCs are open in that regard, I'd love hardware to be separated from software and we can do as we wish, but that's not what's being sold to us, or what the mass market they're targeting is demanding. They are creating and selling a product, not just hardware. Edit: and again, I'm not saying it's right, definitely not, and certainly not saying don't kick up a fuss and show the companies what you want, just that buying an item that makes no claims to openness and just expecting it to be open "because", is naive.