On 03/05/2013 12:47 AM, Vicen Rodriguez wrote:
While I sympathise, reality is exactly the other way round. The profit, the companies and the holy "marketplace" are the most important things out there.
Maybe companies and marketplace seem to be considered sometimes most important than citizens' freedom and rights. We should work to fix that, at least regarding software.
Hello, It is not about companies and marketplace. It is about consumers who consider options that provide a good balance between quality and price of the products they buy. Freedom to modify the product may be considered by some, but still it is within some balance.
For example would you pay 100.000 euros for a car where you can replace engine, lights, seats, cpu, software etc, or would you buy a 15000 mass produced one? The example is exaggerated, but consider that even smaller price differences, make a lot of impact to certain people.
So in almost every example I can think of, if companies are forced with legislation to break their products in multiple separate parts, prices would go up in the average case, and go down in few (geeky) cases. Do you really believe the average person is prepared to pay more for something that has not any immediate impact visible to him (not everyone is a mechanic or software developer). Most probably he'd just import his product from a country where they don't have those laws.
For these reasons, I find the approach described by Alessandro (which was unknown to me before) quite interesting to pursue.
regards, Nikos