The coward is not the producer, it's the consumer. I think Silverlight sucks, therefore I don't access websites that present Silverlight-only content. It's the consumer's duty to do what's right. Someone using Silverlight is just as unethical as its creators.
The difference with 1984 is that Google is very real and does hold huge amounts of private data. gmail, iGoogle, search history... I hope they keep to not being evil, because they do some good work! Fear of possible misuse of my email won't change my writing though. xkcd says it well: http://xkcd.com/137/
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The coward is not the producer, it's the consumer. I think Silverlight sucks, therefore I don't access websites that present Silverlight-only content. It's the consumer's duty to do what's right. Someone using Silverlight is just as unethical as its creators.
The difference with 1984 is that Google is very real and does hold huge amounts of private data. gmail, iGoogle, search history... I hope they keep to not being evil, because they do some good work! Fear of possible misuse of my email won't change my writing though. xkcd says it well: http://xkcd.com/137/