News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot. Parent comment

Re:Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot by tzs on Saturday December 29, 2012 @12:25PM (#4982665)
One major difference between phones and desktops is that phones are often subsidized.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot by josteink on Saturday December 29, 2012 @12:32PM (#4982687)
So are computers with their "free" antivirus included. But let's not care about that.

Why should that make a difference?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot by greenyoda on Saturday December 29, 2012 @10:35PM (#4984482)
The subsidy is paid back by the customer being locked into a service contract for some number of years. It shouldn't affect the customers' freedom to run their own software on the phone.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Support the FSF: Help us stop Restricted Boot by owendbybest on Saturday December 29, 2012 @02:43PM (#4983169)
This applies mostly to US phone sales.
[ Parent | on HN ]