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Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] grue 23 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

They have a fiduciary duty to be as shitty as humanly possible.

They don't -- that's a cargo-cult misunderstanding of Dodge v. Ford Motor Co -- but it's so widely believed I guess it might as well be true.

[–] surph_ninja 8 points 19 hours ago

If the people sitting on the Supreme Court believe it, and I believe the majority of those shitbags do, then that is unfortunately the law as it stands.

But when the law is unethical, I don’t see why we should be lawful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Well, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, such as the way Costco mostly operates. Being the good guys has a lot of brand value. With a little nurturing of the vast propaganda machine known as advertising, that could be improved.