Why would they be worried? It’s plain and simple. They won’t.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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Let's be real though, technically software has always lived and died on licensing instead of ownership.
I remember software in the 90s having limits on how many computers you could use an application on (however rarely enforced), and making backup copies of software that you owned (like copying a CD for backup purposes) was a hard fought right when the DMCA was being implemented. But even the backup only helped so much because especially in the last 20 years tech has grown at lightning speed since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.
I'm not arguing this is how it should be. I'm just clarifying that technically this is how it has always been. We've never had full rights to do whatever we want with the software we buy. It's why Free (as in speech, not as in beer) Open Source Software is so important, and why open hardware is so important by extension.
The same companies that rose to dominance using an environment with weak regulation and enforcement while also maintaining that hacker attitude of "routing around bad legislation" have now been using their dominance to make an environment of tight regulation and enforcement, now that they're at the top. They have spent endless amounts of lobbying money to get this environment to benefit them where you're locked in via hardware and software to the companies rules on how you use your hardware and software... because the software was never really ours, and now they're leveraging that to make our hardware not ours either.
The only way out is through. FOSS.
"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" - WEF