If you mean move to products with ZDR policies, OK, very fair and I agree. If you're talking the equivalent of carpenters should give up pneumatic air guns because hammers are more authentic, then that's silly. These are tools, and like any tool how effective they are can come down to how well you use them.

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Eddy_Viscosity2 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Should they give up pneumatic air guns if the company that supplies then can then control what you build with them, how you build with them, and secretly copies all your designs for their own use. Sure its a good tool, but its also becoming a trap.

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Gabrys1 5 hours ago | parent [-]

So in some very weird way, this is similar to right to repair vs John Deere.

Or is it just capitalism doing capitalism stuff?

	▲	Eddy_Viscosity2 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is capitalism doing capitalism stuff, but more fundamentally technology is allowing for more centralized control of more things by fewer people. Regardless of ideology, increasing concentration of power has bad outcomes for people (except the ones in power).

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ardacinar 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think there are any pneumatic air gun "provider"s that come with an associated risk of them claiming your carpentry work.