planned obsolescence is nice and all but have you encountered unplanned obsolescence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
@cell i love how the cap plague is due to several rounds of industrial espionage causing electronics manufacturers to using terrible electrolyte compositions
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In a world without popular support for the concept of IP (with everything else being left equal) people would be incentivized to rely on secrecy. This situation sounds like one that would be more common in a world where secrecy is used more often. (Obviously, there are possible worlds without IP where that problem doesn't exist and maybe even it's hard to get a world with IP where it doesn't exist, but I'm think of quite literal ceteris paribus.)
