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Bionic Eye Patients Are Going Blind Again After Manufacturer Decides They're Obsolete (futurism.com)

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Welcome to Capitalism, where you can lose your vision because some corporation didn't get enough money.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I argue it needs to be free/libre software not just open source. Yes there is a difference; "Open Source" is usually used as a marketing term by companies and refers to software that is under a permissive license, which doesn't necessarily grant the users any freedoms; It can still contain proprietary binaries or have strings attached in some other way. In other words it can still serve the interests of private person(s) by only releasing parts (usually non-crucial) of the source code.

Copyleft licenses are the only way to go here if you want software where the user has 100% control.