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I usually enjoy articles by Jacques, but this one has a different tone and I don't think I understand its point.

Saying things like

> hey should just shut up, sit in a corner and do their bloody job. seems unnecessarily blunt.

And if you don't like Let's Encrypt, don't use it. It's being compared to convenient paid services, so why not use those instead if they end up being more convenient for your usecase?

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I don't like the 'if you don't like free service X that you've been using for Y years then don't use it'. There is a cost to switch, and that cost to switch alone outweighs all the benefit of using LE in the first place. That's not what I was sold when I went into it, and even 'free' users are entitled to being treated with some care.

On the assumption that you are using a free gmail account: would you agree that Google could shut down the free tier of gmail tomorrow unless we all move to Chrome and it would be our problem to deal with the consequences?

> On the assumption that you are using a free gmail account: would you agree that Google could shut down the free tier of gmail tomorrow unless we all move to Chrome and it would be our problem to deal with the consequences?

Yes.

The latter is a clear cut violation of antitrust law. How is this similar?

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