On Jul 3, 2015, at 6:47 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Louis Kowolowski wrote: > >> ... is the issue that debian packaged things wrong, getting a lot of people >> in >> a huff, or something else? Why is this news now? > > To answer the last question, consider what Google and Apple are now doing, > and the business case for the different approach of each: > <http://tinyurl.com/pk2cngv>. > Google and Apple have done things differently for as long as I can remember. The companies have different roots, different goals, different ways of making money. Google mines devices, people for information that it sells. That is fundamentally at odds with privacy, since its well known that it only takes a couple data points on the internet to uniquely identify a person.
> Guess I'm too old to think that a computer or tech company knowing all > about me and making its own recommendations for my actions is kewel. I find > the idea intrusive and too remenicient of 1984 and Brave New World. Shudder! > Sure, but my point is that this kind of thing should’ve been discussed a year and a half ago when they blogged about it publicly. -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> Making life more interesting for people since 1977 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
