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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by gameshot911 on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:41PM (#16399062)
It seems to me that the company that makes the software had the perfect right to decide when it does and does not work. No?
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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware by leereeves on Saturday February 17, 2018 @12:48AM (#16399270)
There's a sense of loss in that for many of us who were born into a world where, once you bought something, you owned it.

Now, you often buy only a license to use something until the company that made it decides not to let you use it anymore.

In some sense, we live at the mercy of people we've never met.

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