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		eastbound on Dec 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hard... Aren’t we all doing this when we buy software from the cloud?

bornfreddy on Dec 8, 2023 [–]

No? When using the cloud we are renting resources and can (in theory) switch providers as we wish. Here they bought a machine that vendor purposefully broke after some time or with purpose to disable competition from doing their job.

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