> So accustomed to exploitative corporate gaslighting, we're forgetting the basics of civilization, like, what are ownership rights?

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> Stallman was right: if you erode the norm that you control your own software, you lose the hardware, too. Free software is sort of a consumer right that enshrines what ownership of computing hardware means.

The teeming masses praising Steam for cutting out the middleman seem unacquainted with the first-sale doctrine.