3 ms·
> "Resources spent on scamming them instead" would be something like locking the customer out of doing their own firmware updates or refusing to publish documen
by lijok 3y ago
> "Resources spent on scamming them instead" would be something like locking the customer out of doing their own firmware updates or refusing to publish documentation or source code in their possession for out-of-support products because it enables planned obsolescence. But regulations prohibiting such practices wouldn't see many objections from open source developers because they would be trivially satisfied by publishing the source code under widely used existing licenses.
That's definitely a problem which should be fixed and is indeed currently being fixed by the EU via regulation.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoDon't fall into the trap where "regulation" is treated as a monolithic thing which is either good or bad as a whole. It's the most motte and bailey thing in the world. Anyone can justify the government in prohibiting leaded gasoline, that doesn't tell you whether any unrelated proposal is any good. Many, many of them legitimately are not.