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> Old, like from a time when it respected your freedom more? No. - Old like people took years to create alternative drivers and reverse engineer APIs. - Old
by dathinab 4y ago
> Old, like from a time when it respected your freedom more?
No.
- Old like people took years to create alternative drivers and reverse engineer APIs.
- Old like hardware which was phased out due to security flaws which also happened to allow free firmware.
- Old like the producer doesn't care about it anymore and therefor some employees feel safe to leak some details needed for creating free drivers.