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I got a chance to ask Woz a question at a speaking engagement. I asked him what he thought about the fact that I don't own my IOS device like I owned my Apple I
by EvanAnderson 7y ago
I got a chance to ask Woz a question at a speaking engagement. I asked him what he thought about the fact that I don't own my IOS device like I owned my Apple II computers-- that I can't tinker with the software and hardware and do what I please with it. His reply, which I don't recall verbatim, was to the effect of: "We have to have locked-down devices today so we can have security."
It made me very, very sad.
- Enginerrrd 7y agoMan that's a lame response. I really have to wonder if we didn't just get incredibly lucky that the initial culture of hackers that built the open source community and internet infrastructure was one that was very non-commercialized. I really have to wonder if all the companies that are thriving now on locked down hardware and proprietary systems, the same ones pushing everything to their proprietary cloud platforms would even be here and able to do half of what they do thanks to that culture of selflessness. If it didn't already exist and have such momentum, I'm really skeptical that anyone would reproduce the concept of free and open source software in today's day and age.
- dharmab 7y agoI mean, your Apple II wasn't constantly connected to a network full of hostile actors and executing code downloaded over the network without explicit confirmation.