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To be fair, having a contract terminated by violating it isn't really the result of "monolithic software pipelines controlled by a corporation".
by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
To be fair, having a contract terminated by violating it isn't really the result of "monolithic software pipelines controlled by a corporation".
- hnarn 7y agoI feel like you're missing the point. A "contract" with a company shouldn't be at the center of the question of whether you can develop software for a specific platform or not to begin with. It feels like this was understood and controversial only ten years ago, while nowadays people all over the Internet will argue with you to defend Mordors god-given right to rule over every single behavior in the world's most popular smart phone. It's quite worrying to be honest, of this continues people won't know there even was a debate about net neutrality and software freedom a few decades from now.
- slavik81 7y agoIt reminds me of something out of The Right to Read. > Programmers still needed debugging tools, of course, but debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers. The debugger Dan used in software class was kept behind a special firewall so that it could be used only for class exercises.
- sanxiyn 7y agoOn the other hand, after terminating the contract, saying "you would be getting an e-mail with instructions to get your access restored", without doing so, is pretty weird. I mean, lying is not illegal, but still.