On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote:
> Karsten Silz wrote: > > On Feb 1, 12:45 am, Steven Herod <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think the iPhone is a dictatorship, and most people don't give a > damn about democracy and freedom unless the dictatorship is affecting > them directly. > > > Having grown up in a dictatorship (East Germany), I would define a > dictatorship as a form of government that most of those who live under > it can't leave (and can't prevent from being born into). To me, a > consumer product that's not in a monopoly position can't be a > dictatorship since users are free to enter and leave. > > > > You're right in pointing out that often we misuse terms that in the > original significance are related to much more serious things. > > Of course, there's the free market. If things were always like today, I > wouldn't be worried. But listening to opinions that see the marked divided > by iPhone and Android, I'd be worried in perspective. > > In a world of patents there cannot exist such a thing as a free market. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. > Everywhere."java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - > www.tidalwave.it/[email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Viktor Klang | "A complex system that works is invariably | found to have evolved from a simple system | that worked." - John Gall Akka - the Actor Kernel: Akkasource.org Twttr: twitter.com/viktorklang -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
