3 ms·
The real question is who "approves" what software runs on _your_ hardware? No software producer should have a say on that. It should be the decision of the hard
by crististm 15y ago
The real question is who "approves" what software runs on _your_ hardware? No software producer should have a say on that. It should be the decision of the hardware owner.
- parfe 15y agoIf you read the recent thread about RMS you will see a large market exists of consumers who don't want the power to make decisions. They don't even want that option to be available. Quotes like: - Why would I care? I don't know anything about what's under the hood and I don't want to. - Apple puts DRM on for the user's safety. - The days when every software users was if not programmer then at least IT guy in some sense are long gone. That model no longer fits the world. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163920 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163920
- marshray 15y agoIf there had been that large market back in the early 80's I suspect we would have never seen that massively successful open IBM PC-compatible platform and ecosystem.
- crististm 15y agoThere is also another side of the story: you buy a piece of hardware and run your software on it and then the hw producer pushes firmware updates and turns your dear hw into an expensive brick. Take the Sony Playstation or their rootkits for example...