alt Hacker News> later modify that device later to remove that functionality that is called theft.
I've always been told it's called business. But I fully agree with you. Just wanted to note that this is the current business model both with hardware and software
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Gormo • today at 11:56 AM
> I've always been told it's called business.
The "business" ended when the sale transaction concluded. The fact that you were the seller in that past transaction doesn't entitle you to vandalize goods that now belong to someone else.
This is just crime trying to disguise itself as legitimate business, as scams often do.
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basilikum • today at 11:06 AM
Crime is unfortunately legal.
estimator7292 • today at 12:11 PM
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This is why the fight/loss for open computing is so important.
Without the ability to run your own code, this will be everywhere and everything.
Without some counter force of open source pushing back and offering alternatives, we'll be putting tokens in a machine to check your email. Reading email will cost 4 tokens and you'll only be able to buy them in groups of 7.