It's not that you're passing along profit to device makers. After all, that's what purchasing this device will do. It's that you're passing along profit to devi

It's not that you're passing along profit to device makers. After all, that's what purchasing this device will do. It's that you're passing along profit to device makers who take these hundreds of millions of lines Free Software and then lock/jail the user into the device, refuse to meet their GPL obligations in a timely manner, refuse to provide upgrades, refuse to allow the user to develop their own upgrades, and basically give the finger to the thousands of Free Software developers who have developed all this software - with the intent of giving users freedom in their computing platform - upon whose work they are profiting.