It's the usual tactic for getting these kinds of laws passed.
This isn't just restricted to Germany or copyright laws. The same rationale was used to pass RICO. Except now it's as likely to be applied to a Slashdotter as it is to one of the Corleones.
People like you pretend that Unix users are masochists and want to spend any more time than they really have to on something. In truth, Unix users are even more lazy. They just have some degree of enlightened self-interest when it comes to their laziness.
I will actually spend less time on stupid nonsense.
Automation vs. pretty pictures.
While GUIs can certainly be automated far better than they are, this anti-intellectualism and pandering to idiots to the detriment of power users will tend to ensure that GUIs remain a source of needless busywork.
...sound a lot like stuff everyone else was doing before Microsoft ever decided to contemplate it. One of those "everyone else" bought one of the leading enterprise Linux distributions.
Running Windows in an enterprise is one of the most likely things to make you hate Windows. I wouldn't necessarily fault Linux for not being able to be managed the same way that Fortune 100 companies manage their Windows desktops.
It really gives you an understanding for those 80s corporate rogues that first adopted DOS.
Imagine the federal government managing your PC. That pretty much what you end up with.
If I ever have to say another word to Dell or Apple then YOUR PRODUCT IS A FAILURE.
The idea that "support" matters for a consumer machine is just beyond absurd. The moment you decide to use that "support", it's means that you should have bought something else instead.
The only "support" anyone should be offering is the opportunity to return a lemon for a full refund beyond just 30 days.
Perhaps they want Oracle DBAs going to conferences in San Francisco surrounded by images of an armoured version of Tux to think of Dell first when it comes time to purchase hardware.
They might want to just let the enterprise side of the house handle any sort of "outreach" to Linux users in IT.
I will shop a Linux vendor first simply because I have seen these shenanigans from Dell before. I have ZERO expectation that they are offering this product in good faith. That's not even getting into Dell's reputation in general.
"Linux support' will be the same shoddy offshore phone bank that they use for Windows. The same computer illiterates will just be working off of a different script. You're proceeding from the false notion that ANY consumer Windows vendor offers anything that really qualifies as "support".
You will get the same crappy support for Linux as you do Windows and it will cost just the same for Dell.
Clearly you have never worked in corporate America.
This isn't about being a "neckbeard". This is about having seen corporations in action both from the inside and the outside. This thing could be designed to fail or it could merely be crippled by internal management considerations we're not privy to.
Dells' own previous attempts in this regard are a direct contradiction of your own eagerness to worship corporations.
"Big" projects tend to limit the size and number of companies that are hiring. You may not actually like the sorts of companies that are in that group. "Big" projects can sound glamourous but often aren't all they're cracked up to be.
MySQL is bad about dealing with unreliable hardware or power.
It has poor defaults in this regard that seem to indicate a culture that values performance over integrity. That kind of thing tends to turn off a lot of RDBMS users.
My "home builds" all look as good or as bad as the case I bought. I can spend as little money on this or as much as I want. It can be as stylish as any Apple product or I could not bother with that at all.
Plus I can have it all done for my by someone else. The web is full of such vendors. It has always been this way.
My first 486 was "built" exactly the same way.
Except it was a magazine ad rather than a website.
Your post is really funny considering you specifically mention Seagate.
The "I don't want to be bothered" experience is not very compatible with components that are notoriously failure prone. It's very easy to find out what those are.
To think, there was a time when Consumer Reports specials ran on HBO. I suppose that was before the Idiocracy.
The only real "burden" here is having a clue. If you don't have a clue then the salesman at Best Buy or the Apple Store will simply take advantage of you. It's the same as if a car salesman thinks you're an idiot. There is really no glory in being an idiot.
If you can't pick your parts you can't know whether or not the latest Apple product is a turd.
Your entire post sounds like a wannabe power user looking for problems where none exist because most of the rest of us don't try to over complicate things. That even goes for long time Unix users.
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He's trying to demonize the victim.
It's the usual tactic for getting these kinds of laws passed.
This isn't just restricted to Germany or copyright laws. The same rationale was used to pass RICO. Except now it's as likely to be applied to a Slashdotter as it is to one of the Corleones.
Nope. Your fear mongering is what's stopping it.
People like you pretend that Unix users are masochists and want to spend any more time than they really have to on something. In truth, Unix users are even more lazy. They just have some degree of enlightened self-interest when it comes to their laziness.
I will actually spend less time on stupid nonsense.
Automation vs. pretty pictures.
While GUIs can certainly be automated far better than they are, this anti-intellectualism and pandering to idiots to the detriment of power users will tend to ensure that GUIs remain a source of needless busywork.
Tools like that have been available for Linux quite possibly since before you were even computing or even alive. They are that old.
You know it's bad when...
You mean those things it already had because it got them from Sun because Sun was less into proprietary vendor lock than Microsoft is?
The Unixen were managing large networks of machines before Microsoft even had networking.
...sound a lot like stuff everyone else was doing before Microsoft ever decided to contemplate it. One of those "everyone else" bought one of the leading enterprise Linux distributions.
Running Windows in an enterprise is one of the most likely things to make you hate Windows. I wouldn't necessarily fault Linux for not being able to be managed the same way that Fortune 100 companies manage their Windows desktops.
It really gives you an understanding for those 80s corporate rogues that first adopted DOS.
Imagine the federal government managing your PC. That pretty much what you end up with.
...except Lucas borrowed heavily from Kurosawa.
Without Kurosawa, there isn't a STAR WARS.
The guys at the genius bar never gave me any grief about my Macs having Ubuntu on them.
If I ever have to say another word to Dell or Apple then YOUR PRODUCT IS A FAILURE.
The idea that "support" matters for a consumer machine is just beyond absurd. The moment you decide to use that "support", it's means that you should have bought something else instead.
The only "support" anyone should be offering is the opportunity to return a lemon for a full refund beyond just 30 days.
Perhaps they want Oracle DBAs going to conferences in San Francisco surrounded by images of an armoured version of Tux to think of Dell first when it comes time to purchase hardware.
They might want to just let the enterprise side of the house handle any sort of "outreach" to Linux users in IT.
I will shop a Linux vendor first simply because I have seen these shenanigans from Dell before. I have ZERO expectation that they are offering this product in good faith. That's not even getting into Dell's reputation in general.
"Linux support' will be the same shoddy offshore phone bank that they use for Windows. The same computer illiterates will just be working off of a different script. You're proceeding from the false notion that ANY consumer Windows vendor offers anything that really qualifies as "support".
You will get the same crappy support for Linux as you do Windows and it will cost just the same for Dell.
Clearly you have never worked in corporate America.
This isn't about being a "neckbeard". This is about having seen corporations in action both from the inside and the outside. This thing could be designed to fail or it could merely be crippled by internal management considerations we're not privy to.
Dells' own previous attempts in this regard are a direct contradiction of your own eagerness to worship corporations.
Sure it is. You just pick the right parts. You include "works well with Linux" as one of the business requirements when designing the thing.
THAT is not worth $50 per laptop.
"Big" projects tend to limit the size and number of companies that are hiring. You may not actually like the sorts of companies that are in that group. "Big" projects can sound glamourous but often aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Power outages perhaps?
MySQL is bad about dealing with unreliable hardware or power.
It has poor defaults in this regard that seem to indicate a culture that values performance over integrity. That kind of thing tends to turn off a lot of RDBMS users.
That is by no stretch of the imagination a huge effort.
It is also something that can and is delegated to power users.
The Ubuntu variant of this is a good example.
Flash video is only hardware accelerated if the webmaster chooses to take advantage of it.
That film is proof that even dirt eating Americans have a limit in terms of what they will tolerate.
There's a very good reason. Google is an index, not a publisher.
Little details matter both in computing and in law.
You can't just ignore them.
Perhaps the geezer on the bench would understand this if put in terms of an antique card catalog.
Google isn't the perpetrator.
They are just making it easier to find the perpetrator.
THAT is who you should sue or prosecute.
My "home builds" all look as good or as bad as the case I bought. I can spend as little money on this or as much as I want. It can be as stylish as any Apple product or I could not bother with that at all.
Plus I can have it all done for my by someone else. The web is full of such vendors. It has always been this way.
My first 486 was "built" exactly the same way.
Except it was a magazine ad rather than a website.
Your post is really funny considering you specifically mention Seagate.
The "I don't want to be bothered" experience is not very compatible with components that are notoriously failure prone. It's very easy to find out what those are.
To think, there was a time when Consumer Reports specials ran on HBO. I suppose that was before the Idiocracy.
The only real "burden" here is having a clue. If you don't have a clue then the salesman at Best Buy or the Apple Store will simply take advantage of you. It's the same as if a car salesman thinks you're an idiot. There is really no glory in being an idiot.
If you can't pick your parts you can't know whether or not the latest Apple product is a turd.
Your entire post sounds like a wannabe power user looking for problems where none exist because most of the rest of us don't try to over complicate things. That even goes for long time Unix users.
Unix means lazy, not masochist.