On 08/29/2012 08:24 PM, Ahmet Öztürk wrote: > > > > This is your decision but do not forget that freedom comes at a price. It can > be paid by actively coding (whole apps or just patches), or by investing some > time for making things work, or many other ways. You may choose not to pay > this price or think that you cannot afford it. But please, oh please refrain > from blaming developers for it. Developers work to the best of their > abilities without usually being paid at all and when their efforts fall short > in some fronts against some major companies' products, they are the ones to > pay yet another price by answering endless unfair accusations of the > "community". > > Yes, for the present we may spend our resources as we like. But, if we don't > do it carefully, who can guarantee that our digital life won't be governed by > corporate entities in the future? > > That is the real bleak future. > > By the way, I enjoy using Gnome 3 more than anything I tried since Win95. > > Ahmet > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Rosegarden-user mailing list > [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user >
Slavery is always preferable to freedom. Who cares who is pulling the strings, so long as I don't have to think about it what to do next, right? Who cares where the food comes from, so long as they drop me the occasional morsel? Whats a few chains, so long as they paint the cell a nice color and don't beat me more than once a week? Our lives are filled with computers, from the microprocessors in our radios, televisions, hearing aids, alarm clocks, and so forth, to the high end CPUs in our Desktop PCs, servers, and cell phones. At the end of the day: Who do you want to be in control of all that hardware you own? Yourself? Or a handful of programmers 2000 miles away, working for a CEO who is more than glad to use whatever technological or legal measures are necessary to ensure that you have to use his product and services forever? (Locked down iPhone anyone? Or perhaps a bricked Playstation?) And doesn't mind turning control or personal information over to scary government organizations, so long as the company comes out on top...? (E.g., Microsoft/NSA collaboration[1]). Let's not even get started on DRM technology, which uses malware to restrict your ability to control and manage your own data on your own hardware. (Anyone remember the Sony fiasco?) DRM only works, of course, if your software and hardware is a black box that you don't understand and don't have the ability to study or modify (or you are sufficiently intimidated not to attempt it). It's your hardware, right? Shouldn't you have the unrestricted ability to study how it works, run what you like on it, and change what you don't like? Oh, but who really cares about that? Just pass me a beer, a box of pizza, and the next Crysis DVD, and I'll be happy. [1] http://youtu.be/v6nWpaPNZTk -- frigidcode.com indicium.us
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