Post #1320250

2025-08-28 22:00 UTC

@lianna @leeloo @StaticR it’s not, though. just in the sense that you do not own the order of the words of a book you purchase, you do not own the cleverness of the OS. you own the ink the renders the words, and you own the electrons that represent a copy of that cleverness. The cleverness is licensed to you, not sold.

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@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org 2025-08-29 01:33

@jazaval @lianna @leeloo This was actually the point I was gonna get to earlier when I said I'll post something "in a bit". The difference is a McDonalds franchisee works for McDonalds and represents their brand and sells stuff under their banner, so they have to uphold the expectation what a McDonalds is. A private person using the android OS themselves does not work for google, does not represent their brand to others so they shouldnt need to uphold the brand's expectations.

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@leeloo@chaosfem.tw 2025-08-29 08:13

@jazaval @lianna @StaticR Nope, I only ever bought phones or books. You may be thinking of copyright, but that's an entirely different thing. That's a law defining what I can do with my copy AFTER I purchase it, unless I have a separate license to do the things that copyright law says I can't.

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