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Because one day We The People will pass Apple Laws which levy a 100% final point of sale sales tax on products (containing at least one universal machine) and services which reduce owner sovereignty.

If a product could conceivably do X and steps were taken in R&D to keep it from doing X (not that it wasn't implemented, but was specifically designed to prevent owners from doing X even though otherwise it could if steps weren't taken), or if the product maker does not publish protocols, formats, standards, etc, or designs those with the intent to thwart interoperability; or if the owner is prevented from changing programming code on a universal machine regardless of the product's function (phone, PC, microwave, washer, blood sugar monitor, automobile) with well-known interface hardware and communication protocols; or anything else in this spirit I have missed, will be in violation of Apple Laws and must have a 100% final point of sale sales tax levied so that philosophically highly anti-Stallman products can't compete easily against near-Stallman compliant products.

Closed source proprietary software and hardware are huge national security problems. Even if USGOV can sign an NDA to inspect source code and chip design, it's still a national security issue that you and I can't. It is a national security issue when decade-old idiot-TVs and idiot-cameras long out of software updates pwn computers and/or get turned into remote surveillance devices for digital voyeurs paying top dollar to collect private feeds into peoples' lives (don't ask).

Phew! I hate mobile keyboards!




Yeah my delivery is bombastic and maybe sounds a little schizo: sure you got me, probably why I am downvoted.

Then again how many salaries would my schizo-presented ideas impact (many), and what is their intersection here (at least moderate)?

Probably the former, the latter would mark me as paranoid schizophrenic. :^)




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