Comment by Imustaskforhelp
15 days ago
I want to take something from this article which deeply fascinated me.
The Right to Run
If you own a computer, you should have the right to run whatever programs you want on it.
I always thought that this was something natural yet Google is doing the developer registration and spotify is dmca'ing/suing? revanced team just for skipping some lines of code.
it is my computer and if I want to run a open source software from f-droid, I should be able to without one of the largest companies in the world meddling in the way.
If I want to run spotify in revanced, the developers shouldn't be sued for just skipping some lines of code. Theoretically it breaches on my rights to run software.
Its my computer,my phone, my devices and I want to run whatever I want with it. I paid for it completely and I want to use it completely.
Yet more and more, its becoming as if your device is becoming something similar to license, like they are making us think that we haven't bought a phone, we have licensed it and there is a big difference.
They might want to slowly extract into even more of our rights to somehow sell a phone as a subscription even after buying it and what not, god.
Imagine google packages up a developer service where for 5 bucks we could side load the apps, that WE ONCE COULD DIRECTLY.
This isn't far off. But we have made almost our hardware like a service and that saddens me/violates my rights and I want to fight against them. Fuck big corpos. Fuck google.
Its my damn computer and none of your damn business saying what I have to do with my own computer. I paid for it completely and I am gonna use it completely.
I'd say the difficulty now is how online services are integrated as part of being able to function in many tasks we're now asking phones (or mobile computers) to do. If you're only doing local stuff then you can probably get by, but so much of the world prioritizes online and having secure payments if your phone doesn't respond correctly to those services then there's a risk of exclusion or a time/money cost to use them in a less convenient way.
>I always thought that this was something natural yet Google is doing the developer registration and spotify is dmca'ing/suing? revanced team just for skipping some lines of code.
And how does Google enforce this? With the very same copyright laws they ignore to train their AI.
don't you know that its official that laws only apply to us small guys and not the big guys, this has been a open secret for so long.(maybe? satirical) /s
They are just gonna be given a fine and does crime just suddenly become legal of sorts as it maybe bucket change for these companies.
You still have the right to run whatever you want. You just have to use adb to install it, instead of letting it happen automatically.
It sucks, but it's not the end of everything...
That is a very very weird spot that I would be limited to.
I can have my phone right now which has f-droid and download apps directly without requiring any other device anywhere as long as I have internet access to download the apk or I have the apk
With adb, I would need to have another specific device with me which can get real uncomfortable/ be a real breaker for a lot of times.
On top of my mind, I see myself being in the metro downloading games on f-droid to see the state of open source games, I couldn't imagine myself having a laptop in that time, and neither did I have a laptop. I just had a pc back then.
Also a huge % of people who are using f-droid right now would just not do things like adb etc. which are a huge breaker I suppose and in the end it is a huge net negative for the community/ecosystem/still goes against the right to run as I had mentioned.
But I also didn't know that adb was still enabled, I had actually thought that you genuinely couldn't run any app except google's developer registration AT ALL.
but this is also a slippery slope and what prevents them from blocking that too. unless we fight against this, it sets a really really bad precedent for them to follow/essentially dictate my hardware in the future.