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All Hail Our Benevolent Corporate Overlords
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| After reading Electronics Manufacturers Use US
| Legal System to Thwart Hardware 'Hacks' I was
| all set to type a fiery response, but Linux
| Today readers beat me to it. In a nutshell,
| the tech industry is accelerating its attacks
| on our rights to do what we want with our own
| property.
|
| The article is full of revealing quotes from
| industry apologists, who all display an
| astonishing un-awareness of how asinine they
| sound. It was hard picking a winner, but I
| give the prize to Leander Kahney, author and
| editor, who says this is why Apple is so bent
| on micromanaging what its customers do with
| their own property:
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| "Apple is selling directly to consumers,
| who aren't the best guardians of their own
| self-interest. The open PC model works for
| knowledgeable users who know what they are
| doing and how to protect themselves, but
| not so for 15-year-old fashionistas and
| techno-phobic geriatrics," Kahney said. "A
| measure of lockdown is exactly why Apple
| is successful - it hides complexity while
| ensuring a certain level of reliability
| and stability. The vast majority of
| Apple's customers are utterly unconcerned
| - they could give two hoots that they
| can't hack their devices."
|
| Isn't that special. The nice people at Apple
| are making sure that dumb kids and senile old
| people, and all the rest of us don't hurt
| ourselves, because we're too stupid to make
| our own decisions. Last time I was in Home
| Depot I saw high-powered welding machines,
| bandsaws, nailguns, great big heavy pieces of
| lumber, bottles of sulfuric acid and muriatic
| acid, pesticides, and many other scary
| dangerous products that anyone could buy.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2010/03/the-us-slips-fu.html
Days ago:
Windows: Choice But No Choice
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| In the area of window managers Linux users
| are completely and totally spoiled rotten. We
| constantly debate the merits of one desktop
| environment/window manager over another. We
| argue over what programs are better than
| others, what versions of those programs we
| like over another and getting in world class
| pissing contests all the while crying about
| what we wish they would do better or
| differently. I wish Windows users had this
| problem, but they don't. Why? Because they
| have no choice.
|
| [...]
|
| We have gotten fat on the bounty of choices
| and drunk with the power of functionality
| they provide us. Go use a generic NT, 2000 or
| XP setup for a week and then try and tell me
| that KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Enlightenment etc. are
| really that much better or worse than each
| other. Because compared to the Microsoft
| window manager in any version of Windows, any
| Linux window manager blows it away.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/90285/
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