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> As a consumer, I can't say I care. As a consumer who would if possible prefer not to support companies who take what they want, however they want, for their
by dspillett 5y ago
> As a consumer, I can't say I care.
As a consumer who would if possible prefer not to support companies who take what they want, however they want, for their commercial gain and to hell with the wishes (and legal stance) of the creators that says they shouldn't, I gather my priorities differ from yours.
Of course if those features truly are must haves for your work/life (and they aren't all available in one product elsewhere which I don't think they are), or you simply didn't know about these matters before purchasing, then the equation is quite different. If you have no practical other choice then you have no practical choice.
I don't need the featureset enough to ignore my objection to their behaviour with respect to the kernel's licence (and possibly the licences of other components their devices use). Until a competitor offers the same/better or they change their tune, I can live without.
- sudosysgen 5y agoIt's not in a vacuum. The other alternatives are either the same or fully closed.
- dspillett 5y ago> The other alternatives are either the same Or non-existent of course, as the previous poster suggests and I stated I find quite believable. > The other alternatives are either the same Which other alternatives are modifying GPL covered code but refusing to uphold their requirements under the license? Or the same for another license? > or fully closed. Fully closed but correctly licensed (their own work and/or correctly licensed software from other sources) is preferable to taking OSS and breaching the licenses. It is at least more honest.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThere is also Likebook that similarly violates the GPL. I don't think a computing prison is preferable to an OSS breach. A device with an open bootloader that will take whatever code you give it is always infinitely preferable to restrictive computing.
- dorchadas 5y agoThat's why I bought the Fujitsu Quaderno A4. I wanted the 13.3" screen, and it was basically either that or Onyx Boox. It also helps that I wanted a minimalist product, simply for note taking and reading while in a meeting/in class, but a big reason was because of how Boox acts. Though if there's a monitor now, it'd be tough to pass that up.
- rchaud 5y agoPerhaps I should have said "I don't draw the line there" instead of 'I don't care'. There's a certain amount of cognitive dissonance (or callousness) required to operate modern technology while also maintaining one's personal ethical standards. After all, I purchase phones and computers that are assembled in sweatshops, using components whose raw materials are mined by children in countries with no safety regulations. I clearly haven't drawn the line there either. Compared to that, choosing a product from an OEM that's not GNU compliant is an infinitesimally smaller ethical quandary.
- dspillett 5y agoFair enough. My current phone hails from China and I wasn't careful to check who, down on the ground, suffered to make it...