Post #2829569
2025-08-31 16:48 UTC
@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org a truly *free* market also enables *me* to build devices, systems and applications that allow *me* to restrict *you* from doing any of these things with the devices, systems and applications I build, and whichever has the greater competitive advantage as a result, will be more successful.
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@jazaval@mastodon.social 2025-08-31 16:50
@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org the moral of the story is that if you want the public to care about their rights, they need to be more of a gift than a burden
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@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org 2025-09-01 06:08
@jazaval@mastodon.social Actually no, you can make a device or system that has a set of capabilities and your competitiveness on the market is based on these capabilities compared to your competitors. What you can not do is arbitrarily restrict how these capabilities are used by customers eg you can make a computer with an OS but you cannot put restrictions on customers for what sets of bits they are allowed or not allowed to compute or where those bits come from.