Cory Doctorow on Nostr: You are under no obligation to arrange your commercial affairs to the financial ...

You are under no obligation to arrange your commercial affairs to the financial benefit of manufacturers, and anyone who claims to be surprised that someone they sold a device to used it to benefit themselves at the manufacturer's expenses is either disingenuous...or unserious. You bought it, it's yours.

But just as this vibe-coded adversarial interop has drawn both valid and spurious criticism, it's also drawn excitement that is partially justified and partially overblown.

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