Ha. Yes, maybe I went slightly tangential due to my weekend experience but I think the core is relevant: Some geeks accuse the App Store of eroding our freedom

Ha. Yes, maybe I went slightly tangential due to my weekend experience but I think the core is relevant: Some geeks accuse the App Store of eroding our freedoms (and the freedom of free software). I say that truly free software is a luxury that we geeks afford ourselves but make no real effort to share with the less-technical while we intellectually discount the mountainous problem of malicious software that makes non-geeks lives' a misery. It is the latter that erodes the freedoms our our software not the the App Store. Weight & measures, environmental health departments, competition commissions, ombudsmen.. etc. all erode some freedoms while protecting others. This is, sadly, a necessary trade-off.