@mangeurdenuage @iwillbite >Someone has to have responsibility somewhere anyway
corpos are taking responsibility because they own their code and thus they would like some privileges that come along with them taking those responsibilities, yes? compared to the alternative where you have to take responsibility for every single free software project you decide to use in your product even though you hardly had a hand in writing those code

>Yes but that creates liabilities.
so both proprietary software and free software can have liabilities and come with the possibility that they decapitate cats. so why is your original post blaming the decapitation for it being proprietary

>in my region there's literally only 1 repair pc shop
which is why your shop can survive, because it still has a physical component to it and people have to travel to get their stuff fixed, so the distance of competitors are taken into account. not so with software where you're competing with the entire internet

>half a decade ago a company in my region closed because MS sued him because it's not legal to take a OEM key and install it on a new laptop/pc
but it's that company's choice for choosing proprietary shit instead of free software isn't it. that OEM key bullshit was probably buried somewhere in the EULA. they can choose not the deal with MS when they were setting up their new computers

>Windows vista, 8, 10, 11, chromebooks, adobe cloud, revocable licensing, DRM, beheading iot etc...
"yes and that's why you should use my pair of scissors to trim your lawn instead of using that john deere"
note i'm using john deere as an example because of their shitty drm, yet people would still rather use them instead of trimming their lawn with a pair of scissors, i wonder why
could it be that one of them just does the job better and that's what people mainly care about?