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“Apple, through its marketing and visual design techniques, is manufacturing an illusion that merely buying an Apple makes you part of an alternative community. But the technology they use is explicitly chosen to divide people into separate digital cells, and to position Apple as sole warden. When your business depends on people paying for the privilege of being locked up, the prison better look and feel luxurious, and the bars better not be too visible.”I read this last Friday morning. By the end of Friday, having seen the way that Apple and mobile networks around the world had - through the restrictions they placed on consumers - managed to piss off a lot of people, I could see the FSF’s point. Read the whole thing.
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“That’s because there’s no demand. What percentage...iPhone owners do you think have ever...
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This is only partially accurate. They block anonymous distribution and installation of software, but I don’t think...
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF)...Them’s fightin’ words. Now we stand
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I have to call this one like I see it and Gina is way off base, or niche market demographic. What about people who have...
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I read this last Friday morning. By the end of Friday, having seen the way...and mobile...
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