I wrote it as a tongue in cheek against the OP that said "..I really hope the tech crowd is working on jailbreaking this garbage".
Surprise surprise, that comment is sitting with 49 upvotes 1 downvote, mine that you admonish is on 27 upvotes 13 downvotes.
This kind of proves the point. The "tech crowd" doesn't owe you anything. [email protected], you don't know how much of my personal and professional life I have spent fully on open source.
Get up your feet and talk with your family, representatitives. Legislate this shit away. Nobody accepts food products that dont have a recipe or with unknown ingredients. Nobody accepts engineering projects without plans. Demand open source and interoperability.
He is now slowly trying to buy what rich people normally can't buy; acceptance and recognition. Don't fall for it. He keeps doing the same criminal things in parallel. The world would be better without him and people like him.