Well, all these attempts by industry to dictate what we're allowed to do with our computers according to their ideas are a constant annoyance. If it were up to the industry, we'd soon have to get permission from various manufacturers for any application use, and free software development would be banned anyway. It's already absurd that some people invest hundreds or thousands of euros in a device over which they're supposed to have only very limited control...

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