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John Romero's Doomy View On Android and Ouya
An anonymous reader writes "Romero is willing to give Ouya the benefit of the doubt, but he sees it filling a niche for neither gamers nor developers. 'I think it's cool that they're making a platform, but it's not really the answer that's coming from Apple about the next generation of consoles. Developers really want to invoke the spirit of the Apple II, Android isn't the operating system with which to do it,' Romero said. 'There are two platforms: [iOS] makes money [and] is still very programmable, like the Apple II, and then the other is Android, which is a piracy platform, and you're not doing anything new with it.'"
Android isn't flawed if you are a freetard, it is in exact perfect alignment with freetardism and the attendant piracy that goes along with it.
This is because the overwhelming majority of the FOSS crowd cares only about the free part. Not open, not that they can get the source, not that it comes with Freedom, just that it does not cost them anything. Indeed, even if they ever looked at the source they couldn't make sense of it. They could never contribute to a project. They could never code up a bug fix. They will never actually create anything or do anything with any of the Freedom, they'll just install apps from a repos and use them like every iDevice owner out there.
And so the fact that they get a given piece of software free develops within them a galactic sense of entitlement. If Google gives me the whole OS free, who is this developer to say that I have to pay for his app to run on it? I'll just pirate it. And so it goes.
Sure there is always loads of hand waving about the many eyes and walled gardens and such. But nearly everyone shouting about it is doing so as a misdirection pointing you away from the fact that all they care about is not having to pay anyone for anything. It ain't their eyes and they ain't tearing down any walls.
You're a retard,