> most users don't care The reason most users don't care is that they don't understand what's going on: They've been programmed to believe that law ≥ morality

> most users don't care The reason most users don't care is that they don't understand what's going on: They've been programmed to believe that law ≥ morality when there exist so many painfully simple - even modern - examples where this cannot possibly be the case. People used to buy a car with the expectation it last 20-30 years and would not think about buying a car that they had to take to the manufacturer for repairs or aftermarket upgrades, after all: You need your car to get to work, and everyone knew if there was a malfunction and the manufacturer refused to repair it under warrantee (like a broken windscreen) you could at least get a competitive best-price repair from an open market of repairmen. Without this, how could you possibly trust the purchase of a car? Now they do, and indeed I know people who rotate cars as often as they exchange their phone for the newest version. If the manufacturer won't repair it for free, they can charge as much as they can get away with - far and above the best price -- and the only reason they can do this is because they have a technical monopoly on some secret keys used to perform updates and upgrades. If there's a user who, given the choice, would protect a manufacturers' "right" to price-gouge them, then they're a fucking idiot.