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>Sure, freedom is great and all - but there are some gnarly consequences (especially for non expert users) which often result in less security. So because some

• mc32 10y ago
  It's a problem. Not only tech illiterate people get tricked. People who know better get tricked. Now, it's worthwhile asking whether one favors one over the other, but to say one choice is pro freedom and the other anti freedom is hyperbole and does not advance the issue either way.
• fixermark 10y ago
  Because some people don't know better and download suspicious-file.exe, the market will tend to grow curated solutions, and those solutions will draw the finite resources in the ecosystem away from alternatives. That's not really "your freedoms limited" except for opportunity cost---though in the large, the difference between "It could be that way, but nobody really wants to put the effort in besides some hardcore hobbyists" and "It is license / legally banned from being that way" may end up indistinguishable in result.
• 72deluxe 10y ago
  No. But it is a difficult balance to keep. I am sure we have all had to clean up multiple relatives' computers from spyware and dodgy "Internet toolbars" and viruses. I have lost count how many times I had to do this. As an alternative, my mum now has an iPad and I have never had to do any of this. And yes, I did attempt to educate my mum on dodgy software etc. as she has been using computers since Windows 98 yet still fell foul.