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Subscription period active - Milestone: 4000 signatures!
on 26 Jan 2026Dear undersigned,
we have just reached 4000 signatures! To give you an idea of how much this is: We are talking about 84 pages (size A4) full of signatures!
I want to personally thank you for your signatures and all your efforts in sharing the petition.
As a next step, I will contact the Vorwerk group for an appointment for handing over the signatures.
In the meantime, please keep pushing as much as you can: Get your families and friends to sign, your colleagues, whoever you talk to. Keep in mind: Switching off features remotely after sales can happen to EVERYONE tomorrow. We should send a strong signal against habits like this - and every signature counts.
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Changes to the petition
on 10 Jan 2026
if owning a product no longer means actually owning it, why should anybody be bothered no to start stealing in the first place. if a company decides to switch off servers, which a product relies on/ uses to extend its capabilities, the server files should be released to all product owners for self-hosting purposes.
If the company decides to stop hosting a service due to economic reasons, they will not suffer financial harm when open-sourcing that very service code to its end users.
this should be put into law for all digital products.
any serverside code that communicates with a bought product (or "licenced" - often in the case of video games) needs to made publicly available after shutdown (due to whatever reasons (collapse of company, new product lines...)