With the high-end open phones, yes, but carriers wouldn't have liked them anyways - not only could they not restrict tethering, but with the ability to run anything you can compile on the phone, the phone itself is basically like a tethered laptop.
Yeah it is a bit of a PITA compared to the old system - the first time anyways. Remember with GRUB1 when you had to re-customize your menu.lst after every single kernel upgrade? Good times huh?
That's really impressive. In what world is Microsoft losing money ? They're the largest software house (and also hardware manufacturer) on planet. Everyone knows Microsoft, everyone trusts Microsoft and everyone loves Microsoft.
Yeah they had problems before, but they were nothing compared to the new ones Elop made. All they had to do before was make their smartphones a little more noob-friendly to gain mass-market appeal. Even if they'd just kept on making cheapo phones for the 3rd world and high-end open phones for uber-geeks they would have been much better off.
Well they copied at least as many features for those products in return...the only innovation I can think of recently is the searchable start menu, and that's if you don't count the searchable run menu many Linux DEs have. Office is dragging the rest of the office suites around by the hair - the competition has to emulate them to gain market share (until the ribbons came around, then the legacy interface became a strong point), but their OSes haven't been innovative for a long time. Technically their OSes have been playing catch-up with Linux since the mid/late 90s.
*Keep in mind this surely means libertarian freedom, as in minimal regulation regardless of what that regulation is (i.e. no net neutrality) and ISPs' strong property and free speech rights on the "internets they own." No thanks, keep it.
Oh please, Android has had built-in controls for application data access better than iOS6's for ages, and with the ability to sideload you don't have to mod the phone significantly to add security tools to it, of which there are many. And of course without the need to register with the manufacturer and pay a $100 yearly subscription to distribute apps to up to 100 of your friends (no limit on Android), there will be more malware. Crushing authoritarianism reduces crime, I won't argue with that.
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They want the US out of the UN because they opposed Bush's wars and now there is butthurt.
Maybe if they all go onto Second Life and get slaughtered by Assad's flying penis swarms the UN will put a stop to that.
So we can start by restoring everything taken off the Internet by DMCA takedown notices, right? Since that's the leading cause of Internet censorship.
This will get interesting once the libertarians show up...
Luckily that never happens and nukes are only launched after extensive consideration.
His assumption requires that all the wielders of nuclear weapons are sane.
With the high-end open phones, yes, but carriers wouldn't have liked them anyways - not only could they not restrict tethering, but with the ability to run anything you can compile on the phone, the phone itself is basically like a tethered laptop.
You can't tell Mittens' policies apart from Obama's without an electron microscope anyways. Flip a coin for it.
Except he's now made the same promise with Microsoft instead of the FSF.
Yeah it is a bit of a PITA compared to the old system - the first time anyways. Remember with GRUB1 when you had to re-customize your menu.lst after every single kernel upgrade? Good times huh?
That's a real hardware limitation of cheapass mobos, nothing nefarious.
Exactly. If anything the next version of the GPL needs more restrictions to deal with newer forms of Tivoization that exploit loopholes in the GPLv3.
Gees, ten years isn't that long, have you folks forgotten already?
Everyone forgot their last vague memories of the importance of computing freedom after iOS showed them how nice the inside of a prison cell could be.
Boot sector viruses are a vanishingly rare novelty too, possibly the rarest form of virus.
Yes but you could change it and your BIOS wouldn't prevent the computer from booting.
Microsoft shill spotted! Look at his post history, especially this one:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2960369&cid=40564793
That's really impressive. In what world is Microsoft losing money ? They're the largest software house (and also hardware manufacturer) on planet. Everyone knows Microsoft, everyone trusts Microsoft and everyone loves Microsoft.
LMAO! Subtle!
Yeah they had problems before, but they were nothing compared to the new ones Elop made. All they had to do before was make their smartphones a little more noob-friendly to gain mass-market appeal. Even if they'd just kept on making cheapo phones for the 3rd world and high-end open phones for uber-geeks they would have been much better off.
Give 'em hell mateys, don't stop yer swashbucklin' 'till all the DRM-lubbers rest in Davy Jones' locker!
Optimistic? It's stupendously lolztastic! XD
Perfect DRM exists, used in the games on GoG.com and Amazon/iTunes MP3s.
Well they copied at least as many features for those products in return...the only innovation I can think of recently is the searchable start menu, and that's if you don't count the searchable run menu many Linux DEs have. Office is dragging the rest of the office suites around by the hair - the competition has to emulate them to gain market share (until the ribbons came around, then the legacy interface became a strong point), but their OSes haven't been innovative for a long time. Technically their OSes have been playing catch-up with Linux since the mid/late 90s.
Elop did to Nokia in a matter of months what Ballmer took over a decade to do to Microsoft.
They probably were an innovator for a little while in the '80s, maybe early '90s...
*Keep in mind this surely means libertarian freedom, as in minimal regulation regardless of what that regulation is (i.e. no net neutrality) and ISPs' strong property and free speech rights on the "internets they own." No thanks, keep it.
Oh please, Android has had built-in controls for application data access better than iOS6's for ages, and with the ability to sideload you don't have to mod the phone significantly to add security tools to it, of which there are many. And of course without the need to register with the manufacturer and pay a $100 yearly subscription to distribute apps to up to 100 of your friends (no limit on Android), there will be more malware. Crushing authoritarianism reduces crime, I won't argue with that.