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Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com)
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There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of "planned obsolescence".

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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I am actually curious as to how you would make a locked down managed linux OS akin to ChromeOS.

Because Linus Torvalds stupidly refused to change the Linux license to GPL3.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

What difference would the kernel licence make in this context?

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