On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:48 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Hello/Bonjour, > > More arguments against Apple and locked-in systems in general: > > http://opensource.com/government/10/2/education-and-ipad's-architecture-control > "..Delivering 100 free iPads to a village in West Africa or a struggling > school district in Mississippi isn't charity, it's a set of handcuffs.." > > http://timothyblee.com/?p=2191 > "..if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a > programmer today.." > > http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/01/29/tinkerers-sunset > "..Once upon a time, Apple made the machines that made me who I am. I > became who I am by tinkering. Now it seems they’re doing everything in > their power to stop my kids from finding that sense of wonder. Apple has > declared war on the tinkerers of the world. With every software update, > the previous generation of “jailbreaks” stop working, and people have to > find new ways to break into their own computers. There won’t ever be a > MacsBug for the iPad. There won’t be a ResEdit, or a Copy ][+ sector > editor, or an iPad Peeks & Pokes Chart. And that’s a real loss. Maybe > not to you, but to somebody who doesn’t even know it yet.." > > Sustain > >
Then Maybe all of us should have stopped pirating software earlier and paid. When i say all of US i mean society in general. Thus none of these companies would be so hard pressed to lock people in and force us to pay if we did it willingly like it was back in the day of the early apple computers ;) Just an idea... Nick Sklav _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
