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Company Bricks User's Software After He Posts a Negative Review
- lightlyused 10y agoI posted this 18 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13196136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13196136
- orf 10y agoI re-submitted this because I felt there was more discussion to be had. More information has come to light since then as well. Here is the megathread on the Ham radio subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/5jf4i2/ham_radio_deluxe_mega_thread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/5jf4i2/ham_ra...
- lightlyused 10y agoYep, see my latest post.
- forumSzliding 10y agoBrick is just the wrong word for software. What complete nonsense. The analogy is all wrong. They "voided" or "invalidated" a licence and "disabled" software, remotely. Nothing got bricked. Software is never bricked. Nothing is permanent in software, and furthermore software does not resemble a brick. HRD is being a little self-important by proclaiming they have bricked anything. Clearly they believe they are much more powerful than they really are.