“Oh you built this house with one of our hammers, so it’s ours actually.”
The problem with companies like for example Adobe over let’s say DeWalt is that they actually have a pretty strong grip on it’s target market.
If there was only one company that made tools to build houses i’m sure eventually they’d try to pull the same crap if they could get away with it.
You can totally see the same kind of walled garden thinking in things like battery platforms for powertools.
Most people buy into a brand and never go elsewhere.
The laws around ownership and IP are also ridiculous.
I can lend this DVD to my aunt but if I do the same with the the movie file then I’m a criminal
I’m becoming more and more convinced that their ultimate goal is for everything to be rented, nothing owned.
They are the feudal lords and we the peasants merely get the privilege of leasing shit from them. This phone? Not mine, it can be locked remotely at the whim of my lord Google. What I see on this phone? Also determined by my lord’s mercy.
I think it’s insane the rules for anything computer-related or computer-adjacent
“Oh if you make anything using our software, legally it’s ours.”
Could you imagine if the same logic applied if you removed the “Magic Technology is Magic” aspect?
“Oh you built this house with one of our hammers, so it’s ours actually.”
The problem with companies like for example Adobe over let’s say DeWalt is that they actually have a pretty strong grip on it’s target market.
If there was only one company that made tools to build houses i’m sure eventually they’d try to pull the same crap if they could get away with it.
You can totally see the same kind of walled garden thinking in things like battery platforms for powertools. Most people buy into a brand and never go elsewhere.
The laws around ownership and IP are also ridiculous.
I can lend this DVD to my aunt but if I do the same with the the movie file then I’m a criminal
I’m becoming more and more convinced that their ultimate goal is for everything to be rented, nothing owned.
They are the feudal lords and we the peasants merely get the privilege of leasing shit from them. This phone? Not mine, it can be locked remotely at the whim of my lord Google. What I see on this phone? Also determined by my lord’s mercy.
When he saw a child drinking from their hand, he threw away his designer brand single use bottle.
Own nothing and be happy. Reject their bullshit products.