What seems to me to be the most troubling aspect of this is that it is, IMO, a path to establishing the illegality of modifying your PC -- e.g., legal precedent that modifying a piece of hardware's vendor-shipped configuration, for example, to put a non-Microsoft OS on it (like Linux) is equivalent to theft, as you're denying the vendor cost recuperation by bypassing the ad revenue.
Total and complete control of what, how, and when you can do anything has always been Microsoft's goal and always will be. And yes, systemd and Lennart Potterfuck remain the biggest lurking existential threat to FOSS.
What seems to me to be the most troubling aspect of this is that it is, IMO, a path to establishing the illegality of modifying your PC -- e.g., legal precedent that modifying a piece of hardware's vendor-shipped configuration, for example, to put a non-Microsoft OS on it (like Linux) is equivalent to theft, as you're denying the vendor cost recuperation by bypassing the ad revenue.
Total and complete control of what, how, and when you can do anything has always been Microsoft's goal and always will be. And yes, systemd and Lennart Potterfuck remain the biggest lurking existential threat to FOSS.
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