This is the way. You just need to be patient. Threatening to file a case with the consumer court (India) often gets a better response from big businesses. Though, I am surprised why you are allowed to sue the retailer here (unless they were selling the product under their own brand name)?
Many countries place the regulatory burden on the importer/retailer of products to make enforcement easier.
It can be difficult to directly sue a foreign manufacturer but importers and retailers tend to have domestic legal entities that can be compelled to attend court appearances etc.
Works the same in the UK. It makes sense that the retailer is responsible for ensuring goods they sell are fit for purpose, especially when many of these laws predate online shopping. Also it would be difficult to sue a manufacturer who isn't in your country.
There are three companies involved (maybe more): The retailer, with which you have a contract, the importer and/or distributor, with which you don't, and the manufacturer, which is in another jurisdiction. Given that the manufacturer is usually somewhere abroad, which company will the legislature pick? There are two options, so I'd be shocked if the lawyers agreed on which option is better to write into the law.
Yeah, body temperature falls when you sleep. In fact, that's one of the tips give to insomniacs to help them sleep - have a bath at night, preferably with cold water.
People have different values and ideas, which means those words may mean something entirely different to someone else, to how you interpret them. xGPL code seeks to protect the freedom of the developer and the consumer to tinker with the code (right to know and repair), at the (slight) expense of capitalism. There is no prohibition on you to use the code, even commercially. All the license demands of you is that if a consumer of the product demands the source code, you share it with them. And that you cannot prohibit them to modify and distribute it further.
> The rumors of future products keep me of buying the current products.
You may have heard of the 5-minute rule - "Will doing this take me less than 5 minutes? If the answer is yes, do it now." An adaption of that to reduce impulse purchases is - "Do I really need this product right now? If the answer is no, don't buy it."
It is political. As I mentioned elsewhere in HN, Telegram is now being promoted in the US by the political-right there because they have lost trust in US BigTech social media platforms who, they believe, are "unjustly" censoring them on their platform. That is why the right-leaning media are now heavily promoting Telegram ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ut6RouSs0w ) and bashing other platforms ( https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher... ).
You mean the BigTech social media platforms that use Signal's protocol for messaging ? Wow I wonder why the people who don't trust BigTech social media don't choose Signal that is actually insane.
If it is indeed political don't try to bring some kind of technological merit into this, it makes you look really dishonest.
You missed my point - I am agreeing with you that the arguments for or against both end up political, because politics is the reason both are being promoted. Technically both products are equivalent. And both products may also be sharing data with government(s). The right- in the US just hope that Telegram isn't sharing it with the US government. :)
Want to bet that any messenger service that requires your phone number to register and id you on their network is compromised?
For those interested, watch this interview of the Telegram founder by the US right- media as it offers an interesting insight about the politics and competition behind these messenger / social networks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ut6RouSs0w ... (And this is, by the way, the original source of the story - https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher... - which also seems to be US right- media. Looks like a concerted Republican / Trump followers attempt to have their flock use Telegram now.)
It has more to do with US politics - both the major US political parties lean to the right- and allowing unions encourages socialist ideas that obviously clash with the ideas of the political right. Unions can (and do) become powerful political blocs which means that political parties then have to try to entrench themselves in it to retain some level of influence. But that also means they also have to actually listen to their concerns and politically deliver on some of them, to retain their influence. This can lead to a dilution of the ideology of the politically right, which some politicians and businessmen do consider as a political threat.
Checkout https://textpattern.com/ - its development started around the same time as WordPress, and still continues. Even though it didn't reach Wordpress' success, I've always felt that TextPattern is better coded than WordPress.
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