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“You're justifying a company you PAID thousands of dollars to remain in control of your device?“ This is the bit that you FOSS diehards don’t get. Nobody reall
by sbuk 9y ago
“You're justifying a company you PAID thousands of dollars to remain in control of your device?“
This is the bit that you FOSS diehards don’t get. Nobody really cares. What they want is something that they can switch on and go to Facebook or edit their documents on. They don’t want to tinker with kernel exstentions or run servers. For most, computing appliances are far more convenient.
- tripzilch 9y agoNobody really cares? You know, we're on this forum called hackernews? You might want to pack up that opinion and take it to some place called "consumernews" or something (they might call it "productnews" these days). That is where nobody really cares. While most of the "FOSS diehards" get it just fine. People want convenience. It's not that hard to understand and you're making yourself look like a fool if that's your claim. Doesn't mean convenience is the right way forward, even if people want it or don't care. Since when is "people don't care" a viable argument for anything, the people that don't care, don't understand this.
- sbuk 9y ago“Since when is "people don't care" a viable argument for anything, the people that don't care, don't understand this.” So climb down from your ivory tower and make them understand without reverting the usual rhetoric as you have done here.