If I understand this post correctly, it is meant to tell the people who bought and paid for one thing to STFU and accept that BL has decided to change what they offered when we made the purchase decision.
We are to accept that companies can and will break contracts they wrote and we should accept that and be grateful.
Such a dumb position to take.
If you bought a car and they said it takes diesel and 6 months later they say you can only use cooking oil, would that be fine?
What if the car company said “you cannot use the highway/motorway now”?
Did your use if this car change because the company that provided it changed the offering they sold you?
Yes
You can be pro BL and anti this abusive change of contract we didn’t agree to.
But, if you are pro BL and pro changes to contract, that is weird, because, when does it end.
If your problem is you don’t like people talking about it, stick your fingers in your ears and don’t listen, just because other people are trying to protect your rights, you don’t have to listen.
Your original post isn’t about OSS it is about BL being allowed to change contracts.
I think you may have entirely misunderstood why people are annoyed and this part explains that.
People being angry isn’t about tinking, it is the change of contract between the item sold and the item they say they are going to change it to.
People didn’t buy BL to tinker. BL printers aren’t a tinkerers plaything, they are mostly locked down.
They did work with other software though, that is being removed and curtailed, they were built on OSS software and they are forcing entirely unnecessary CSS in the mix, they are introducing security measures to fix a them problem which they are turning into an us problem and using non-industry standard and wholly insecure solutions in the process?
Don’t believe me, read some of the security experts explain it. They have already breached their own security at least twice by having private key embedded in publicly accessible files rendering the whole security system obsolete.
This isn’t a security issue they are trying to fix or they wouldn’t have designed such an insecure system.
It is about removing features by adding CSS blockers in the print process to force other companies to stop supporting BL printers (think Orca) so they can control the whole process.
The legal term for this whole process is a bait and switch, or a long con.