> Wow the public relations sock-puppetry on HN is getting very clever and sophisticated.
Very true. There are a few companies that engage sophisticated sock-puppetry on HN like P§l§nt$er, M$, M§n$ant§ and J§hn D$$r.
Ethic should be a mandatory school subject.
About dongled binary signed software in hardware devices. We sincerely need a law to prevent this. Tesla cars and John Deer tractors actively prevent the second buyer market with this. And one can imagine it's going to get worse with more self-driving cars and more software in vehicles.