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If it's legal for me to carve a smiley face onto my garden gnome shouldn't the garden-gnome seller be oblige[sic] to provide an official way to do it? Why shoul
by jbbeats 14y ago
If it's legal for me to carve a smiley face onto my garden gnome shouldn't the garden-gnome seller be oblige[sic] to provide an official way to do it? Why should I need to figure out how to use a chisel? What if the gnome is very fragile so I can't do it without breaking it?
Just as carving a garden-gnome is not intended, manufactured, or expected behavior, there's absolutely NO reason for a phone manufacturer to go out of their way to offer jailbreaking tools. Your statement is completely illogical. Just because it is legal for a user to do something does not mean a company should have to do it. Even if it is legal for a user to do something doesn't mean that they must be able to reasonably do it, it just means if they do there won't be legal ramifications. Your post reeks of self-entitlement and a deep misunderstanding of the actual issue in question.
Another ridiculous example to round it out: Since it is legal for me, as a user, to attempt to install visopsys (an operating system made by one man which is obviously incompatible with everything) on my macbook apple provide drivers and support for installing this OS even though supporting it would likely take thousands of developer hours and gain Apple nothing. Users likely won't be able to install it on their own and developing drivers for it is probably near impossible.
See how your argument is exactly the same as the above? Jailbreaking, just like that OS, is the product of users and as such need only be supported by users. If a company wants to support jailbreaking, such as google allowing chromebook unlocking, that's their prerogative, but there is NO reason to expect or insinuate that a company should actually provide support for some random operation a user has come up with that in fact is to the company's detriment.
Honestly, considering the quality of your argument, I question your ability to function in society. If you're not underage (on the order of 7 or so) I highly encourage you to check yourself into the nearest mental facility due to an obvious mental disability manifesting itself as borderline retardation. At the very least I encourage you to GET THE FUCK OFF HACKER NEWS FOREVER because reading your idiotic statements, opinions, and retard-spew is roughly as pleasant, and just as enlightening, as self castration while gargling shit. Save us all the pain of dealing with you and deal with yourself, fatally if necessary.
- corin_ 14y agoI accidentally upvoted you after your initial correct argument before reading on and discovering that you're a complete asshole. Trust me when I say that pretty much the entirety of HN will be much more glad to see tambourine_man stick around than anyone who talks the way you do.
- edanm 14y agoPlease leave Hacker News. (If anyone missed it, read the last paragraph of his comment to understand).
- tambourine_man 14y agoNice. Back on the subject, companies go out of their way to prevent certain usage scenarios. If that's suddenly against the law, it's only reasonable for them to provide a way out. Actively preventing you from using a product to the fullest is very different from supporting unintended usage.
- hfsktr 14y agoI don't know an incredible deal about law or anything but I was under the impression that the law was that: jailbreaking = legal, as opposed to not jailbreaking = illegal. Unfortunately I am not as good with analogies as others are on here. I think polymatter's comment summed it up the best.