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> Do you want your car company maximizing revenue by not allowing you to buy anything but new parts of their manufacture installed by their techs?

DRM for machinery is absolutely already a thing.

What about shifting open source licenses so that duplicating an open source API in a proprietary product, or using a product that does so, is a violation of the license agreement?



You have to be party to such a license in the first place do you expect anyone to be stupid enough to sign up for that bullshit?




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