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there are certain things that ought to be user rights, but which there is no financial incentive for any manufacturer to provide (in large part due to the apathy of insufficiently-informed users). for a good parallel, think about things like wheelchair accessibility - it would be very easy for a business to simply write off that minute percentage of its users who are wheelchair bound, but the law has decreed that being accessible to disabled people is a right they want to enforce as a basic cost of doing business.


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