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God I wish megacorps would stop being morons with NDA nonsense and just open up the possibilities for open source devs to actually use the hardware that's out there
We're still hampered by the decisions made decades ago to base our society around proprietary technologies.
It's a shame bad people who understood the implications of such decisions were able to recruit layman to their cause. Good people like Richard Stallman are only heard about in fringe tech circles while the bad men are household names.
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