Granted, I didn't pay much attention to the part on warranties - but similar practices are in place in most industries, right? You overclock your processor -> warranty voided.
Of course it would be cordial if companies cooperated with 3rd party solution providers to approve these solutions, but seeing as how that competes with MEN's own products, I understand their reluctance. At the end of the day, capitalism isn't altruistic. The purpose of any company is to produce return on the investment of it's owners, not to serve some greater purpose of technological development.
I agree with you that this is not how things necessarily should be. So far, there just haven't been viable alternatives.
The Red Herring article quotes "complaints", "claims" and other loosely justified attacks on the companies, which, quite frankly, border on slander. At the same time, many are missing a crucial point; it's not MEN that are making technological mischoices so much as the carriers.
If I had a grocery store and customers wanted to buy yesterday's bananas, then, by Jove, that's what I'd be selling them!
On the lighter side, how about this for an acronym: Siemens, LUcent Technologies, Nortel Networks?
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Granted, I didn't pay much attention to the part on warranties - but similar practices are in place in most industries, right? You overclock your processor -> warranty voided.
Of course it would be cordial if companies cooperated with 3rd party solution providers to approve these solutions, but seeing as how that competes with MEN's own products, I understand their reluctance. At the end of the day, capitalism isn't altruistic. The purpose of any company is to produce return on the investment of it's owners, not to serve some greater purpose of technological development.
I agree with you that this is not how things necessarily should be. So far, there just haven't been viable alternatives.
The Red Herring article quotes "complaints", "claims" and other loosely justified attacks on the companies, which, quite frankly, border on slander. At the same time, many are missing a crucial point; it's not MEN that are making technological mischoices so much as the carriers.
If I had a grocery store and customers wanted to buy yesterday's bananas, then, by Jove, that's what I'd be selling them!
On the lighter side, how about this for an acronym: Siemens, LUcent Technologies, Nortel Networks?