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In the comments, someone says: "We were campaigning against Restricted Boot 10 years ago..." and gets the reply: "Yes, you were campaigning against Microsoft.
by scholia 14y ago
In the comments, someone says: "We were campaigning against Restricted Boot 10 years ago..." and gets the reply:
"Yes, you were campaigning against Microsoft. However, when Apple implemented the Palladium spec to the letter, most people folded because they were more anti-Microsoft than pro-freedom and were taken by the shiny stuff. Now it is acceptable to the public to buy locked down devices."
- thechut 14y agoI saw that comment too. It's incredible what we as the larger tech community have let Apple get away with this decade that we never would have let Microsoft get away with the previous decade.
- scholia 14y agoAn amazing number of self-identifying FOSS fanboys still seem to have their tighty whities in a bunch over the evil deeds Microsoft committed in the 1990s, while giving Apple and Google free passes. Of course, this makes sense. Scape-goating doesn't require anyone to use their brains ;-)