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RMS says things, people angrily disagree with RMS, people passionately agree with RMS. RMS is RMS. His idea of a computer is much different to what most people
by nicholassmith 14y ago
RMS says things, people angrily disagree with RMS, people passionately agree with RMS.
RMS is RMS. His idea of a computer is much different to what most people want. Out of curiosity does anyone know what he was talking about when he mentioned "two spy features" that Apple removed? I can't remember ever hearing about it.
- misnome 14y agoI think one of them was the "Location Cache" that remembered locations and connected WIFI hotspots (IIRC to aid in fast geolocation), and there was another case of something like some carrier-mandated monitoring software. All a couple of years ago.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoIf that is the case then calling them features feels somewhat inaccurate. The location cache one was far closer to being a bug or an unintentionally poor implementation rather than something that had deliberately been inserted.
- ciderpunx 14y ago"six legged feature"?
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoCall it what you like but as all software has bugs it's not a particularly useful differentiator. What I'm curious about is why closed software seems to get such a rough ride on the privacy front compared to services such as Facebook, Google Search and Gmail which are business models which don't leak data incidentally, but piss it up against a wall as a fundamental and entirely necessary part of how they work. Facebook gets a tough time but Google it feels to me gets off very lightly.