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My feelings are similarly practical; it seems unlikely that Home Depot is using this to be predatory against legitimate customers. But in combination with the tendency for more and more products that were once actual purchases, conferring legal ownership of a thing, to become limited-term usage licenses – i.e., rent-seeking behaviour – in this context, it does concern me a small amount. How long before, like heated seats in cars, certain features of your power tools are locked out behind a subscription fee?
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