[email protected] wrote:
One question remains, why do some (if not most) people _still_ not understand in 2017 what this all is about. Why do people still strike a blow for companies (looking at you, Intel & co.) that treat you like crap. It really beats me.
This has more to do with corporate media and the kind of message exclusion we see in other efforts. It takes a *lot* of money, time, and non-journalism to keep anti-war talk at bay, for instance, despite that American public doesn't want more war. But you won't find this sentiment reflected in the US corporate mainstream media which engages in pro-war talk daily. I think what goes on with the messages people are taught by all sorts of discussions in computer discussions is another instance of this same corporate control. The computer press is not exempt from this control nor is it unique or different than other non-journalistic press.
We can't expect people to know what they're rarely taught; they're taught to evaluate computer-related goods and services on price, look & feel of promotional materials, and perhaps some technical features. Therefore ME isn't a proprietary backdoor, it's a sysadmin tool. Software freedom rarely comes up (and is actively put down in some online forums) and is sometimes purposefully misstated as though it were a development methodology which can be tossed aside if it becomes inconvenient to major proprietors.
