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Comment Re:Fraud haven (Score 1) 46

I don't know what they can do about that without breaking their business model

If a business model inherently depends on non-cooperation, opacity, or immunity from justice and harm becomes systemic as a result then that model is not only broken; it is unacceptable.

If you jurisdiction requires communication software vendors to provide law enforcement with a backdoor and/or encryption decryption capabilities, your jurisdisction is not only broken; it is unacceptable.

Comment Re:Escalation in ToS (Score 3, Insightful) 139

In this case it is by law pretty much everywhere because you bought a physical item.

The device and the software on the device are not the same thing,

This, precisely. You might have purchased a physical item and do own it, but you absolutely were not granted ownership of the software running on the physical item. You were granted a license to use it. A license with terms and conditions. A license that can be revoked.

Comment Re:RTFGPL (Score 1) 126

I am afraid you do not understand. There are no furher restrictions placed on your right to redistribute the sources. You can freely do it. It's just that it means Redhat will terminate their customer relationship with you. Which means they no longer have to offer you binaries. Which means they no longer have to offer your sources either.

It's devilishly clever legalese. Stupid and annoying yes, but also devilishly clever.

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