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Sounds like a post by Richard Stallman. I understand the argument but there is an element of practicality involved here, is there anyone out there who buys abso

• danudey 10y ago
  Fundamentally, this sounds like a generic 'anti-corporation' rant. "That's what you get for trusting The Man, man!"
  • jasonkostempski 10y ago
    It's an anti-idiot factory rant. In the tech field, it's a fact at this point, you cannot trust the man. It's demonstrated almost daily. It won't change though, it takes about a decade of getting burned before getting fed up with it and by then you're outside the target market, but the next round of idiots are already in line.
• chrisper 10y ago
  I do not think it's about buying nothing from corporations, but rather having put all of your belongings into the basket of one company.
• mcknz 10y ago
  Unless you build your own laptop/desktop from raw materials, you are buying from a corporation. Anyone is free to buy a laptop with a physical escape key. The point is: the more you invest in a propriety ecosystem, developing for a certain company's products on that same company's products, the less flexibility and freedom you have to change. Apple's primary goal is consumer adoption; developer needs are necessarily secondary. To demand that Apple cater to the latter misunderstands the company's priorities.
• koder2016 10y ago
  That's the argument: either suffer intensely once/twice with Apple or spread your suffering evenly over 10 years with Linux.