Pearl clutching and lamenting about what I don't know is sad.Unless TPM 2.0 cuts off any path but windows, Free O/S will flourish.
On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM ben via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2025-11-24 8:35 a.m., Paul Koning wrote: > > > > > >> On Nov 23, 2025, at 10:34 PM, ben via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> You have no software ownership any more, or control over you computer. > > > > You forgot about open source. This issue is precisely why it was > created and why it is such a big deal. > > The hardware is NOT! > CP/M had open source hardware, and bios routines. > > > > Yes, if you actually run Windows on your poor innocent PC, you're > correct. > > STRANGE, I RUN WINDOWS*.It works with my hardware. Linux does not.It > never did with any computer I ever had.I had a PDP 8,clone once that > never ran windows or unix. (spare time gizmos). I could find free FPGA > software with windows but my designs never compiled properly. > > *Darn caps lock key. I hate modern keyboards.The ASR 33 I liked.The > surplus keyboards of the 70's I liked. > > I said UNIX, and implied the historic versions for the pdp 11 and pdp 7. > > Was giving it away free the only advantage, or what could be OPEN SOURCE > for the time? (when nobody is looking, we will copy a tape for you). > Ignoring politics what was the advantage over other operating systems? > PDP-11's with a MMU. cheap compared to the IBM-370's? > > The C compiler for UNIX, I think was more important for UNIX development > as it was a production compiler, compared to toy language like pascal. > It also was small compared with today. > > Having 100's of students write 'hello world' was important back then. > Pascal,C,BASIC all work. I ended up on the pc side of computing > thus better hardware and software I never had. > > Looking back in history, the PDP 11 and the PDP 10 was not better > but just the 'first'. Important but not better hardware wise. > > Ben. > PS. Notice how you can't run a program over night, with windows > demanding some stupid update and reset. > PPS: DEC and IBM in the 70's were the most known but what others like > Philips P856. > > > > > > > > > >
