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Re:Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech... by bzzzt on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:30AM (#30023201)
This has never been about users having control over their own devices (that ship sailed since proprietary software became a thing). This is about big corps fighting about money trying to influence public opinion and legislation.
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Re:Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech... by EMIRELADERO on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:42PM (#30030380)
In my opinion, proprietary software doesn't mean you don't have control, as long as you can choose to not run that software and still make use of the hardware. It's not proprietariness that is the issue, it's the forced execution of code the owner does not approve, or even worse, the outright refusal to run the code that the owner does approve of.
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