Someone please mod the above as the troll that it is. Every day someone comes up with a "new solution to change the world". Is this the solution? Is Doctors Without Borders the solution? Is the Red Cross the solution?
Individually, no; but the fact that enough people care to try something new to change the world for the better is a step in the right direction.
What's "bleak" is that there are people like you more willing to cry "shame" then give possible solutions a chance.
Hotmail introduced the same feature within the past year or so. Funny thing is, before the "bulk mail" feature, I got surprisingly little spam, with no filters on the account. Once it was there, it immediately began to fill up with approx. 10-20 spam messages per day; most of which, incidentally, were from @hotmail or @msn. Now most of the @hotmail and @msn ones go straight to the inbox. Makes me think they gave you that extra mailbox just to spam it.
This matters because users are finding themselves in an increasingly proprietary environment (or ecosystem, or whatever): it has gotten to the point where you have to _pay_ to do just about anything computer-related.
The more people perceive open source alternatives to be viable, and preferable to closed-source, the more people will begin to chafe at restrictions, fees, etc.: they will expect freer access. So when Big Corporation comes along and says, we want a new, profitable internet, Big Corporation will find themselves up against some substantial - and mainstream - resistance.
The inherent contradiction in this is the companies making money off open source are the ones who will bring it to a wider audience...
- O.K.
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Someone please mod the above as the troll that it is. Every day someone comes up with a "new solution to change the world". Is this the solution? Is Doctors Without Borders the solution? Is the Red Cross the solution?
Individually, no; but the fact that enough people care to try something new to change the world for the better is a step in the right direction.
What's "bleak" is that there are people like you more willing to cry "shame" then give possible solutions a chance.
Hotmail introduced the same feature within the past year or so. Funny thing is, before the "bulk mail" feature, I got surprisingly little spam, with no filters on the account. Once it was there, it immediately began to fill up with approx. 10-20 spam messages per day; most of which, incidentally, were from @hotmail or @msn. Now most of the @hotmail and @msn ones go straight to the inbox. Makes me think they gave you that extra mailbox just to spam it.
This matters because users are finding themselves in an increasingly proprietary environment (or ecosystem, or whatever): it has gotten to the point where you have to _pay_ to do just about anything computer-related.
The more people perceive open source alternatives to be viable, and preferable to closed-source, the more people will begin to chafe at restrictions, fees, etc.: they will expect freer access. So when Big Corporation comes along and says, we want a new, profitable internet, Big Corporation will find themselves up against some substantial - and mainstream - resistance.
The inherent contradiction in this is the companies making money off open source are the ones who will bring it to a wider audience...
- O.K.