Boy, the iPad sure feels new to _me_. Maybe its various capabilities predate it, but their combination into a package of that fluidity provides capabilities th

Boy, the iPad sure feels new to _me_. Maybe its various capabilities predate it, but their combination into a package of that fluidity provides capabilities that _I_ didn't have. (Feedler + Instapaper + GoodReader | Kindle ) + Tablet Form Factor == recovery of 10+ hours / week lost to various dead fragments. Complaining that the iPad is "unethical" is like offering to replace my "unethical" Subaru with an "ethical" Model T. At the foot of the Rockies. In a snowstorm. While grizzly bears close in. I'm gonna worry about the unhackability of my transmission with the sun shining. Yeah, the Model T might be fundamentally the same, but the differences in execution make for entirely different tools. Now, I would rather deal with the grizzlies than belong to the guys making the Subarus. I don't want to belong to anyone. But the open source stacks and market competition will catch up. Free enterprise and free people won't let Apple keep those margins and powers for itself. I don't see why I shouldn't leave the grizzlies behind today, while starting work on building my FOSS Four Wheeler. Why not use the closed capabilities today while extending open to meet them tomorrow? I do respect RMS, and I'm grateful for and dependent on free software. But the RMS posting lacked generosity. He and his would be much better off recognizing the enormous utility gains provided by a great many closed systems. I find it hard to imagine that Jobs' focus on the user's needs and perspective isn't a crucial contribution to the development of technology. It wouldn't kill people to recognize that some of this stuff has shown the way to new visions. And it wouldn't kill RMS to notice that Jobs had a passion and vision for technology as _human_ tools. So if RMS is showing us the moon, he should probably notice that Jobs et al have put a couple of satellites into orbit.