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The relationship here is if a car manufacturer decided to stop selling spark plugs for their car and under the threat of a license agreement prevented anyone el
by elmerfud 5y ago
The relationship here is if a car manufacturer decided to stop selling spark plugs for their car and under the threat of a license agreement prevented anyone else from making a compatible spark plug the government would step in and stomp all over them. Yet there is no similar protections when you buy a device that requires software to run that the manufacturer has abandoned.
- pessimizer 5y ago> the government would step in and stomp all over them. Would they, though? I'd be interested in specific cases.
- elmerfud 5y agoThe specific case is the Magnuson Moss warranty act this covers self repair and the use of aftermarket parts in the attempt of the manufacturer to deny claims based upon the use of an unrelated aftermarket part. Additionally look up copyrights surrounding the sale of books and the attempt of placing a license agreements around books and how that failed yet somehow software that is sold in a very similar manner to books can be covered by both copyright and a license agreement.