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torginuslast Tuesday at 3:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

Personally, I think when you are making bad technical decisions in service of legal goals (making it harder to circumvent the GPL), that's a sure sign that you made a wrong turn somewhere.


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1718627440last Tuesday at 3:31 PM

Why? When your goal is to have free software, having non-free software with better architecture won't suit you.

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pessimizerlast Tuesday at 6:25 PM

Yes, the law made a wrong turn when it comes to people controlling the software on the devices they own. Free Software is an ingenious hack which often needs patching to deal with specific cases.