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The whole language irks me. "Entitlement" calls out the new idea that you are allowed to use your hardware or not. The whole point of license code is to preven
by imglorp 7y ago
The whole language irks me. "Entitlement" calls out the new idea that you are allowed to use your hardware or not. The whole point of license code is to prevent the thing from working in some cases.
The last thing I want is another failure mode in my critical path.
- jacquesm 7y agoI have a nice stack of used routers and firewalls, cost a small fortune. Good luck on ever trusting those in a critical application, and by their very nature that's what they are for. So I can see some of the reasoning behind this, but once you have physical possession of a device it would be a relatively small affair to open it up, flip a jumper to 'yes I mean it' and then to be able to get it back to the same condition in which it left the factory. But since smartphones are mere terminals and computers are trending that way too it won't be long before a freely programmable computer will be a rarity. Software distribution is now centralized to the point that we have lost a lot compared to just two decades ago. Freeware and shareware would be unthinkable today, direct-to-the-user by virtue of downloading from the creator. App-stores and self-bricking hardware are the new normal.