buckbanzai@infosec.pub to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoREPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tabletswww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkREPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tabletswww.windowscentral.combuckbanzai@infosec.pub to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoThat’s called “monopolistic competition”. They can’t sell the same phone they were already making.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYes. I’m not saying it’s not monopolistic behavior. I’m saying it’s not a government sanctioned monopoly.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoPerhaps I should sell some without a license.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoOkay? The company will be the one to enforce their license.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI didn’t agree to their license.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·30 days agoLol, are you some sovereign citizen‽ The world doesn’t work like that. You can’t just say “No that thing isn’t your! I didn’t agree with it being yours.”
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·29 days agoIndeed, that’s what makes it a goverment sanctioned monopoly.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·30 days agoJust stop. This is the same bad faith rabbit hole libertarians use to say the government is all violence, from safety codes to taxes.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·30 days agoFuck off, it is violence whether or not we believe it’s justified.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·30 days agoDamn and I nearly made it the whole year without this stupid shit in my life. Oh well, there’s always 2025! May you never learn what state sponsored violence actually looks like.
But they can sell phones.
That’s called “monopolistic competition”. They can’t sell the same phone they were already making.
Yes. I’m not saying it’s not monopolistic behavior. I’m saying it’s not a government sanctioned monopoly.
Perhaps I should sell some without a license.
Okay? The company will be the one to enforce their license.
I didn’t agree to their license.
Lol, are you some sovereign citizen‽
The world doesn’t work like that. You can’t just say “No that thing isn’t your! I didn’t agree with it being yours.”
Indeed, that’s what makes it a goverment sanctioned monopoly.
Just stop. This is the same bad faith rabbit hole libertarians use to say the government is all violence, from safety codes to taxes.
Fuck off, it is violence whether or not we believe it’s justified.
Damn and I nearly made it the whole year without this stupid shit in my life. Oh well, there’s always 2025!
May you never learn what state sponsored violence actually looks like.