@coolboymew @sjw@neckbeard.xyz @1iceloops123 @daisuke @fixpoint I think you can still legally purchase computers with Linux pre-installed though. If you want a worse case, in Egypt, free/libre and open-source software of any kind is illegal and everyone is basically forced to be customers of the big 5 tech giants.
>with linux preinstalled
Good luck with that tho', this rule basically killed all of the IT shops
And anything free and open source is technically all software tinkering, isn't it?
@coolboymew @sjw@neckbeard.xyz @1iceloops123 @daisuke @fixpoint Companies like HP and Dell sell their computers with Linux preinstalled on their websites. You also have companies like Think Penguin and System76 which only sell Linux computers.
>And anything free and open source is technically all software tinkering, isn't it?
No, it means that the source code is available and you are free to distribute exact or modified copies both commercially and non-commercially. A program can have it's source code available without being "open-source". You can even tinker with closed-source software with reverse-engineering.
And still, open source has it technically be tinkered by anyone
@fixpoint @sjw@neckbeard.xyz @1iceloops123 @coolboymew @daisuke I guess it's easier for corporations to push laws like this in third world countries than in the developed world.
