Locked-Down Tablets Endanger FLOSS For End Users

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @02:58AM from the debian-friendliness-as-coal-mine-canary dept.

itwbennett writes "If you buy into the idea that tablets (and ultrabooks, and smartphones) in the enterprise are nothing more than glorified thin clients, then Microsoft's Surface presentation seemed more flashback than future. And if you're a fan of free software, the announcement might also have struck fear in your heart. While Microsoft has never locked out apps based on license, it's not impossible that they might chose a more locked-down Apple-esque approach for Surface, writes blogger Brian Proffitt. 'And that could put free software for end users very much at risk.'"

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FUDD by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-20 03:02 · Score: 4, Funny

They may also make it such that it calls you mean names...
Re:Lock Out by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-20 03:10 · Score: 1, Funny

....right, because when you ban giving away the source code to software, it's the license's fault? Go back to being dead, Steve.
Re:Installation Information by Barefoot+Monkey · 2012-06-20 05:02 · Score: 5, Funny

And a time machine to get GCC from 2 years in the future.