Andrew,
What you say is so true. It seems the computer has moved into the arena of
the appliance, much like the TV or microwave. Buy, plug it in, and go with
little thought as to what goes on under the hood. Right now it may not make
much difference to most people because their day to day use is not affected,
but one should look at the Kindle incident, where due to restrictions on two
books, the company was able to erase already downloaded copies from the
Kindle readers without any user interaction. Users interviewed were
surprised this could be done. What's to say that in the future content
providers won't delete content on your PC unless you agree to their terms,
such as... We see you downloaded that song last year and unless you pay a fee
it will be erased...
With open source, the capabilities of the software, for better or worse, are
there for everyone to see, and it would be harder to bury this type of code
in there.
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