Companies should be required by law to completely open devices when they end support for them

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@thomasfuchs +9001%

Same goes for any #copyright|ed material: If the IP holder refuses to #license it anew all #copyrights should be null and void and the #SourceCode be forcibly published under #0BSD!

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@mihamarkic @thomasfuchs There's no legitimate reason to #EoL almost all devices…

• We don't EoL pacemakers either!

Kevin Karhan (@kkarhan@jorts.horse)

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io +9001% Same goes for any #copyright|ed material: If the IP holder refuses to #license it anew all #copyrights should be null and void and the #SourceCode be forcibly published under #0BSD!

jorts.horse (jorts.horse)

[eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social]

@dnparadice @thomasfuchs I have been trying to 100 percent avoid Amazon, but with a lot of places to buy eBooks from, it's more walled gardens. Kobo requires their own hardware or an Adobe ID. The books I want to buy are rarely available at other sources. I have tried so much, but everything is so complicated and time consuming and in the end I'm not owning my books.
I am back to sailing the high seas and instead of paying publishers I'm donating to the authors directly. If they offer that.

[karl@infosec.exchange]

@mijndert @thomasfuchs And this is why I bought a roomba that isn't connected. It doesn't care about servers shutting down because it doesn't know about the internet.

Old tech is sadly sometimes more reliable.

[magnetichuman@cupoftea.social]

@brad @thomasfuchs employees say Terry is the best CEO they can remember

[mmu_man@m.g3l.org]

@thomasfuchs and all schematics and documents should be given to states in case the company doesn't survive.

[taatm@mathstodon.xyz]

@thomasfuchs @Gargron
Yes, with these tweaks:
1) The law should say they are automatically open on lack of support.
2) Details on opening devices is kept as a wind down plan.

This covers collapsing companies and closing legal entities as well as lazy ones moving on.

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@kkarhan @thomasfuchs Not forcibly, but eventually every device meets its end.

[budin@mastodon.uy]

@thomasfuchs it doesn't seem like this will prevent people from emailing books (bought or downloaded elsewhere) to their kindles, no? it's a pretty simple operation and if anyone (like me) is still holding on to a 2008 kindle it's worth it to learn it

[zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org]

@thomasfuchs Install your open source like model and stop complaining about it please.