kogir wrote: "Exactly. When Apple shipped the first Intel Macs without Boot Camp, there wasn't outrage that Windows/Linux couldn't boot; People that cared just didn't buy them. Just don't purchase a computer that has been crippled by the manufacturer."
The free software movement seeks to educate all people about software freedom and to encourage them to value and protect software freedom.
When someone buying a product "doesn't care" about these restrictions, especially if the buyer doesn't understand what they are giving up, that's a problem the FSF wants to solve.
So, yes, by all means: if you don't want those restrictions, don't buy those products. The Free Software Foundation would like to help more people come to that same conclusion, rather than naively buying into a software world where users no longer have much control over their own computers.
The free software movement seeks to educate all people about software freedom and to encourage them to value and protect software freedom.
When someone buying a product "doesn't care" about these restrictions, especially if the buyer doesn't understand what they are giving up, that's a problem the FSF wants to solve.
So, yes, by all means: if you don't want those restrictions, don't buy those products. The Free Software Foundation would like to help more people come to that same conclusion, rather than naively buying into a software world where users no longer have much control over their own computers.