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authorArnav Bhatt <arnavbhatt288@gmail.com>2022-08-26 00:57:37 +0530
committerArnav Bhatt <arnavbhatt288@gmail.com>2022-08-26 00:57:37 +0530
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Artificial software-level lockdowns
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### The solution
-While enforcing the laws to make these companies to be less anti-consumer may seem like a good idea at the first glance, it still won't fully fix the problems as they can either try to find the loophole of the laws, follow the laws in half-hearted way which does very doesn't actually benifit the consumers or outright being prepared to pay the fines for not following the laws without any real consequences being faced.
+While enforcing the laws to make these companies to be less anti-consumer may seem like a good idea at the first glance, it still won't fully fix the problems as they can either try to find the loophole of the laws, follow the laws in half-hearted way which doesn't actually benifit the consumers or outright being prepared to pay the fines for not following the laws without any real consequences being faced.
The real solution however, is to have a healthy competition in the market. For example, newer companies like [Framework](https://frame.work/) provide options to consumers to have an more open, repairable hardwares which doesn't suffer from the issues the typical counterpart from an anti-consumer company would face. Not only these companies prove that it is possible to deliver devices which are repairable and open in the modern age but they also force other pre-existing companies to follow the similar suit in order to remain competitive in the market.