• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    And what a community to do it to. The FUNCTIONAL diy techie 2a hippe crowd that strives for freedom.

    Like in what universe would somebody with a brain think “ah yes, let me try to pull a fast one on this group, nothing can go wrong”

    I don’t have a printer, but I’m well acquainted with the people who do have printers, and from all walks of life. That is not a “take it and roll over” crowd.

    You might as well try to sell Vietnamese children full priced nikes.

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      54 minutes ago

      It doesn’t even cross their minds. I’m about to leave my current job together with two other seniors because our boss decided we’d turn everything into subscription products. Most of it are forks of open source software running on very basic hardware and we were doing fine with selling working solutions and support. Now every piece of hardware will be subscription based. The customers will own nothing and end up paying triple.

      Our boss is baffled that we don’t want to do this.

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      5 hours ago

      This kinda reminds me of when Sony decided to declare war against people putting Linux on their PS3s. Like, buddy, this isn’t someone you can win a war against and you are wasting your time and good will trying to.