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They took down the whole national datacenter, tried to extort the government officials, then finally gave up when they realized the officials are more corrupt than themselves.
They took down the whole national datacenter, tried to extort the government officials, then finally gave up when they realized the officials are more corrupt than themselves.
Not sure where you get this, but the standard is now ruled by Blu-ray Disk Association. There’s no mention about patent. I’ve looked on the Wikipedia page and the only mention about royalty is about the video codec.
Definitely less prone to hostile takeover.
I’ll tell you what’s practical. If pirates start charging me for stuff, and go thru all the hassle making their stuff difficult to copy, I’d rather just buy the original thru official channels.
Fair. It’d still be nice to have upgradeable RAM, tho.
If they come up with some way to make it as hard as possible for the buyers to share these cracked games among them, they could make a lot of money with this.
This kind of thinking is the bane of humanity.
THANK YOU
They gotta survive somehow and people would complain regardless.
Never had issues due to ‘outdated’ packages myself, but then again, I wasn’t into the latest & greatest.
I mean, you’re always free to choose something else instead of bitching.
Tried the Tumbleweed. It’s anything but stable.
Less reason to subscribe then!
The less money on them, the better!
With swapable RAM modules next, I hope
I guess if AI can destroy humanity, then humanity should never have existed in the first place.
Yeah, that’s what I’ve been doing, but most people would be stuck with whatever got force-fed to them because they don’t know any better.
The OEMs do…
a better person
More like a better liar.
RiP
That’s because the top ones have better options out there while the ones below, who are worse performing in the first place, often have no option but to stay, ignoring their fear and discomfort.
The argument centers around the equality of access, which is especially relevant in the digital age. Rural & disabled population may have problem accessing content with certain restrictions (e.g. need physical access, lack of accessibility features, only available in some region).