We shouldn't assume that internet censorship will or won't happen in the US/Canada/Europe for ideological reasons, ie because we're guaranteed to have a free press/freedom of expression due to our wonderful constitutions and governments, or because The Party would never allow somEthing like that to happen. We should only ask ourselves, "Is it possible?" The answer is yes, of course.
I hope I'm not obnoxious about it, but the major reason I've recommended OSS in the past has been for security reasons.
Story: my roommate had a WinXP machine, I have an iMac, and we share a cable modem connection through a linksys router. My roommate is, er, a novice computer user, and over the course of a few months, his machine became so addled with spyware that it became impossible to use. Not to mention that the internet connection is in my name, and I didn't want to be responsible for whatever crimes his zombified PC was committing. So I went through the standard drill: downloaded and ran SpyBot, installed Firefox, etc. Weeks pass. The spyware/malware/search bars/viruses/trojans persist. So I said:
"Hey, this computer is fucked. Do you want me to install Linux?"
-- "What's Linux?"
"It's a different operating system. And I'll throw in a Microsoft Office compatible suite, web browser, image editor, etc."
-- "Ok, sure"
One Ubuntu install and several universe apt-gets later, and he's much happier with his PC than he ever was before. And I feel good for having made the world a better place.
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Acrylic was originally developed for OS X as "Expression" and was purchased by Microsoft in 2003.
b 8f6-ed78-4a59-87a7-3339441e8116/E33Mac370en.sit
I'm not sure how close it is to the product they're currently pushing, but you can download the Expression v3.3 Mac Classic/OS X beta here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/6/8/a687
We shouldn't assume that internet censorship will or won't happen in the US/Canada/Europe for ideological reasons, ie because we're guaranteed to have a free press/freedom of expression due to our wonderful constitutions and governments, or because The Party would never allow somEthing like that to happen. We should only ask ourselves, "Is it possible?" The answer is yes, of course.
I hope I'm not obnoxious about it, but the major reason I've recommended OSS in the past has been for security reasons.
Story: my roommate had a WinXP machine, I have an iMac, and we share a cable modem connection through a linksys router. My roommate is, er, a novice computer user, and over the course of a few months, his machine became so addled with spyware that it became impossible to use. Not to mention that the internet connection is in my name, and I didn't want to be responsible for whatever crimes his zombified PC was committing. So I went through the standard drill: downloaded and ran SpyBot, installed Firefox, etc. Weeks pass. The spyware/malware/search bars/viruses/trojans persist. So I said:
"Hey, this computer is fucked. Do you want me to install Linux?"
-- "What's Linux?"
"It's a different operating system. And I'll throw in a Microsoft Office compatible suite, web browser, image editor, etc."
-- "Ok, sure"
One Ubuntu install and several universe apt-gets later, and he's much happier with his PC than he ever was before. And I feel good for having made the world a better place.