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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWhy? Do you think I’m not the one who owns my computer? Do you think computers aren’t property? Defend your position; explain what you mean.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoMy point is companies would love if you didn’t own your own computer and I wouldn’t be surprised if they got some legislation through to let them license it that way.
minus-square🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThen I guess they need to start providing the hardware for free, because if I paid for it…it’s MINE and I can do what I want with it.
minus-squarerichmondez@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoTell that to console manufacturers. Or Apple for that matter.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYour ISP already leases your modem.
minus-squareSalix@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoNot when you use your own modem I’m not going to rent Comcast’s modem/access point combo. It sucks.
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThen clearly you are leasing it, not owning it. If your ISP allows it, as many do, you could use your own modem, and then it is indeed yours.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year ago If your ISP allows it, as many do It really ought to be all of them. I mean, c’mon, we already decided this decades ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_decision
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoHow is accurately framing their tyrannical feudalistic scheming a poor choice of words on my part?
Why? Do you think I’m not the one who owns my computer? Do you think computers aren’t property? Defend your position; explain what you mean.
My point is companies would love if you didn’t own your own computer and I wouldn’t be surprised if they got some legislation through to let them license it that way.
Then I guess they need to start providing the hardware for free, because if I paid for it…it’s MINE and I can do what I want with it.
Tell that to console manufacturers. Or Apple for that matter.
Your ISP already leases your modem.
Not when you use your own modem
I’m not going to rent Comcast’s modem/access point combo. It sucks.
Then clearly you are leasing it, not owning it. If your ISP allows it, as many do, you could use your own modem, and then it is indeed yours.
It really ought to be all of them. I mean, c’mon, we already decided this decades ago!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_decision
How is accurately framing their tyrannical feudalistic scheming a poor choice of words on my part?