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> A short while ago I counted over one hundred x86 motherboards that were current and readily available from just one single manufacturer.... This nonsense is a
by google234123 6y ago
> A short while ago I counted over one hundred x86 motherboards that were current and readily available from just one single manufacturer.... This nonsense is a deliberate marketing ploy and there ought to be definite penalties against it...
This is authoritarian nonsense.
- michaelmrose 6y agoThere is no reason they can't have 100 slightly different motherboards they just need to maintain and provide proper docs on the lot and follow other reasonable standards.
- hilbert42 6y agoI have already given you a reason, and they definitely don't maintain the docs—so that's another one.
- hilbert42 6y agoThe only comment I'd offer is that on the political compass you are in a diametrically opposite corner to me (and I'd add to many others in the Right to Repair movement). Thus we'd never agree and I'd never expect it. So be it.