Comment by immibis
9 days ago
No, braindead take. The purpose of being an operating system vendor is to sell an operating system. If someone else modifies your operating system after they buy it, they get to keep both pieces. You don't get to stop them from modifying the thing they bought.
Do you like nanny states? How about nanny corporations?
This particular case is weird because crowdstrike is complianceware.
So, it’s more like “you don’t get to improve your product if doing so would also stop random companies from forcing your customers to break the stuff you sold to them”
Microsoft has no obligation on protect its customers from themselves if they're dead set on shooting themselves in the foot.
Microsoft has no right to prevent its customers from having full access to the things they bought.
Must human arms be braced at birth so they can only point level, lest someone try to point any object at their own foot?
Yeah, but using your analogy, we do allow people to protect their communities from random strangers that want to disfigure other people’s arms.
In fact, I pay taxes to the police and they generally handle this sort of thing pretty well.