> Then don't run that software or don't buy that hardware in the first place? There are plenty of options here.
Yeah, right. Just don't use any proprietary software. Just don't use any mobile app. Just don't buy any mainstream hardware and products. Enjoy all those ridiculously old FSF RYF certified laptops that won't run anything requiring the latest cryptographic user control features anyway.
How in the world is this a solution? These corporations should be forced by law not to do this stuff. The hardware and software should be open and free and they should have no choice but to run on it on our terms if they want to reach customers at all.
> Look at what Apple is doing with their hardware and OS right now. It's not to take away more individual freedoms of their users.
You gotta be kidding me. It is literally impossible for a user to run software on an iOS device without Apple digitally signing it. "Manage their Apple stuff"? What a bunch of BS. More like create their own digital fiefdom where they own users, determine what they can and can't do and sell access to them to third party developers like they were cattle.
You said it yourself, it's about "controlling what software is run on company owned hardware". We don't own these devices, the companies do. There is no freedom to be had here, we're all playing on their playgrounds.
Not all proprietary software currently insists that you get into a TPM-mediated Dom/sub relationship with its developers. Its currently possible, and might be ethically necessary, not to buy those ones, and instead to buy the other ones.
But it's also probably important to pursue a political avenue as well. The government should absolutely not be using this stuff, and shouldn't be advising citizens to do it to access government services. We could even pass a law requiring purchased hardware and software to meet a fiduciary standard towards its users.
> You gotta be kidding me. It is literally impossible for a user to run software on an iOS device without Apple digitally signing it. "Manage their Apple stuff"? What a bunch of BS. More like create their own digital fiefdom where they own users, determine what they can and can't do and sell access to them to third party developers like they were cattle.
Then don't buy Apple products? I totally agree with you in spirit in a lot of your points and I want more freedoms on my hardware. I just understand why we are in this situation as users. We don't have the market power like businesses do when it comes to hardware and most consumers don't care or don't understand their loss of freedoms.
> You said it yourself, it's about "controlling what software is run on company owned hardware". We don't own these devices, the companies do. There is no freedom to be had here, we're all playing on their playgrounds.
Yep, 100% agree here. There are zero freedoms when you are using company owned devices. They have every right to lock them down to the playground they desire for their users. The hardware market is building what their end users want. It just so happens their biggest paying end users are businesses.
Yeah, right. Just don't use any proprietary software. Just don't use any mobile app. Just don't buy any mainstream hardware and products. Enjoy all those ridiculously old FSF RYF certified laptops that won't run anything requiring the latest cryptographic user control features anyway.
How in the world is this a solution? These corporations should be forced by law not to do this stuff. The hardware and software should be open and free and they should have no choice but to run on it on our terms if they want to reach customers at all.
> Look at what Apple is doing with their hardware and OS right now. It's not to take away more individual freedoms of their users.
You gotta be kidding me. It is literally impossible for a user to run software on an iOS device without Apple digitally signing it. "Manage their Apple stuff"? What a bunch of BS. More like create their own digital fiefdom where they own users, determine what they can and can't do and sell access to them to third party developers like they were cattle.
You said it yourself, it's about "controlling what software is run on company owned hardware". We don't own these devices, the companies do. There is no freedom to be had here, we're all playing on their playgrounds.