On 06/12/2015 03:46 PM, weaselcat wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:36:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
It is good though that they've finally relaxed their stance a bit on
what's now being called "side-loading" (or as I've called it since the
1980's, "Running my own freaking software on my own freaking
machine"). Now it appears MS has dropped to last place in that regard
(last I checked, they kinda let you do it, moreso than Apple used to,
but there's still some goofy restrictions and it appeared primarily
geared towards corporations with their own proprietary in-house-only
tools).
it will never cease to amaze me that people are paying for things they
don't even own.
If you can't modify something, you don't own it - you're leasing it.
Yea. Problem is, there isn't much choice. If you need mobile internet
access, then you can't vote with your wallet because they ALL do it.
I really wish PalmOS was still around. Those were well-designed,
practical, easy-to-use AND non-Orwellian. Version 6 in particular was
looking really nice. But Xerox's patent trolls forced Palm to botch up
the Graffiti system, and then the device manufacturers effectively
killed PalmOS 6 because they refused to make anything but iOS clones
('cause that's where the "buzz" was), hence the WebOS debacle. And
that's how we got where we are today. :(
