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The obvious counterpart is vendor DRM/copy-protection, which has been around since forever(see: the NES lockout chips, every fancy disk-sector protection method
by megameter 6y ago
The obvious counterpart is vendor DRM/copy-protection, which has been around since forever(see: the NES lockout chips, every fancy disk-sector protection method used on the 8-bit micros). The attempt is always to make the computer used for something less than it is literally capable of. Extension of these limits into the context of an apparently generalized operating system is just a way of elaborating on the idea.