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This post feels like more than just the privacy aspect. Every day I read about some connected devices going brick because they are no longer supported. Shit, my Roku 4 went brick because they need me to buy a Roku HD, and I suckered up. What're you going to do when your doors won't open because some company decides they don't want to support them, or worse they go under? I am not IT, but why would I want to come home from a day of answering tickets and have to reprogram some proprietary hardware so I can make dinner?
thats why the F in FOSS means free as in freedom
Even worse than your doors getting stuck closed: your vision disappears.
What're you going to do when your doors won't open because some company decides they don't want to
Do not worry my friend. On that day day it will already have been decided that you are only licensing the ability to do so. They will put you in jail for opening your own door, and you'll have given them the legal right to do so in the EULA.
I'm reading Radicalized by Cory Doctorow and the first story haunts me most. (Although I have 1 more to go) He has warned against the IoT Torment Nexus which means "they" are already creating it.
Our refrigerator is over 20 years old. It's now obsolete according to the manufacturer. They recommend replacement over repair. I dread the day we can't bring it back from the dead.