On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 13:25 -1000, Jimen Ching wrote: > YOU don't NEED to care. A lot of people don't NEED to care. As long as > there are people who do care and are willing to fight for those rights. > You'll continue to enjoy the benefits. That's how it worked in the past. > That's how it's going to work in the future. What you're seeing now is > just the process...
That takes the view that there's enough people fighting for freedom in the first place and that they will actually win. Take for instance DRM (Digital Rights/Restrictions Management). Technologies like that are put to unknowing users who don't know the implications... Until they want to move all their DRM'd songs to a new computer they just bought and realize the songs aren't "authored" for that computer. What if a vast majority of consumers "didn't care" and you ended up in a world where you could only by a new PC which could ONLY run Windows? This is how: http://www.xbox360-hacks.com/2005/11/25/free60-linux-on-your-xbox360-project/ Wouldn't that powerful hardware be useful for other applications? Yes, it would: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Linux "All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau