Great manifesto, or at least the beginnings of one. Favorite Quote: "Instead of planned obsolescence, there should be planned longevity." Which, of course, i

Great manifesto, or at least the beginnings of one. Favorite Quote: "Instead of planned obsolescence, there should be planned longevity." Which, of course, is yet another artifact of capitalism. I'll contend that our global economic "system" (or lack thereof, in terms of intended consequences) is a far larger determinant of our living conditions than any local/national government, intertwined as it is with "the economy" (in thrall to?) Let's not forget where planned obsolescence came from, nor the stream of constant revenue it generates for it's practioners (if also, perhaps, casting it's proponents as antagonists to human potential's realization)... ... but onto more practical matters: I've often found cool chips in the trash and wished to be able to onboard their unique capabilities without having to circumvent: 1) an informational vacuum (their maker went bankrupt, or their technical data is locked in some cellar.) 2) "protection" mechanisms designed to create opacity, because "capitalism" and competition, etc. I am imagining some sort of Forth-Borg performing some kind of JTAG perimeter-scan-like activity that basically can "learn" any hardware at the raw gate level and then impose primitive functional blocks on top, regardless of the original intention of such logical structures. Am I crazy? probably... "you will be assimilated" and it guesses the voltages, the high/lows/pullups, bypass caps, etc. perhaps based around a Field Programmable Analog Array.. ok, i'm seriously digressing. I agree with the author. Bloat and deliberate obfuscation and wasteful fake-"abstractions" that merely obfuscate, bloat, and treat users to less info etc, this all has reached absurd depths of silliness. I see this sort of movement as (ironically) inspiring new platforms and devices, while perhaps also enabling us to re-examine existing systems in light of such ideas.