think I read somewhere

Doesn’t make it true.

What did you watch?

It is frightening because a company overstepped what is the free will of a public agency in doing what they want with their own property. I know this is much more already a reality in the US, but imagine if monopolistic companies alone could dictate to countries how laws should and shouldn’t be.

With the link you included, do you mean to say that your comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0? I have never seen anyone apply this to forum comments

More than a fine, I would hope that whoever mandated such locks to be installed is arrested. I am sure some criminal charges can be found.

I assume they mean that on topics not thoroughly tested in court, a judge can always make up their own mind based on how they personally feel.

Tell them instead of mocking them.

Yes, “that’s how the world works”. But doesn’t mean we should stop trying to change it.

Yes, he explains not only this but also other lock mechanisms in the talk.

For example, one based on datetime. It’s quite crazy.

What you describe at the end is how it became a monopoly.

The beginning is how a monopoly acts.

What you replied to was very clearly a joke.

And today we are throwing them away for free.

feddit.it present!

I believe the idea behind different servers not meshing but federating, so they can have different focuses and different moderation stances.

Twitter could go permanently offline tomorrow as well, for all we know.

leading to a dev studio of an aircraft sim shipping it in a real game.

Is it X-Plane?

Mein Kampf is sold even in Germany end Austria, because we recognize its relevance in our History.

I don’t understand what you want accomplish by destroying texts.

SpaceX is the main contractor of NASA.

Yes.

You can find a dozen other reasons to terminate your Netflix subscription, for sure.

Most users can’t name a single reason why their programs should update.

They don’t see risks in running unmaintained software. The developer does. I could get behind your all-subscriptions ideal, but if the user terminates the subscripition, he should be made unable to keep using the software. Hence why this cannot be the norm with Free software.