What I'm hearing from this comment and all sentiment that agrees with it: My mother should never experience the benefits a computer can bring to her life becau

What I'm hearing from this comment and all sentiment that agrees with it: My mother should never experience the benefits a computer can bring to her life because the only device she could understand how to use would be something like an iPad—and since the iPad is made by a company that isn't 100% open, it shouldn't exist at all. Everyone should use Ubuntu, and if you can't use it, it's because you're too stupid and thus don't deserve to have a computing device in your life. Open source principals are more important than anything else, and they must be applied in a binary fashion, scaled across all approaches to computing in the world. ---- A pet peeve of mine is "hackers" ignoring design, and showing zero empathy towards humans [1]. Perhaps we need more designers in the world and not more hackers who stick tight to principals, often completely blinded by these binary maxims they drum up to the real end goal: enabling our species to advance. [1] http://krisgosser.com/journal/2011/08/empathy-is-most-important/ http://krisgosser.com/journal/2011/08/empathy-is-most-import...