When will those bunch of hypocrites attack Apple? The most closed system there is!

Freedom? Only if people do exactly what Open Source Evangelists want it is called freedom, I call this imprisonment.

I want to use what I want and not be bordered by Open Source (or Apple) Evangelists. Microsoft doesn’t enforce anything on me, Open Source and Apple try do nothing else than force me to use their products.

And when will Open Source Evangelist ever admit that almost every Open Source software is backed by commercial companies with the only purpose to force their competitors out of business.

I have many version of legal Windows over the decades. These can legally transferred to my Asus. Even W-7, which is FREE – for the next several months. The info on our hardware/ software that we give to Ms is not how we really intend to use our hardware/ software. After installation, they don’t know what we do … encryption of all kinds, firewalls, etc.

Apple practically wrote the book on DRM and proprietary software. But they’re just wonderful. Linux gets a pass on coercive business practices, but Apple certainly does not.

And why do people insist on thinking of computers like cars? You can drive a car for 15 or 20 years if you take care of it, but a car is expected to start, stop and drive. Computer technology is advancing at a dizzying pace. Everything is advancing; Hardware, software, and consumer demands. We WANT our machines to do more than they are capable of at the moment, so the advancements are the industry answer to consumer needs. Yet when someone finds it necessary to replace a 7 or 8 year old machine because it won’t run current applications (which, btw, generally has little to do with the operating system), they suddenly complain of planned obsolescence.

People since the days of win95 have been running with admin privileges. People today still cling closely to admin privileges in windows like fat people on cupcakes. Admin privileges is a huge convenience to users with a large drawback. The drawback being the unsafe habits of users anywhere on there computer including the internet and the fact that running as admin on any operating system is like having a big retard that says yes to everything that’s armed with a shotgun. People running with admin privileges wonder why they get viruses even if they’re virus scanner was working, or wonder why the system doesn’t work all of a sudden because they decided to delete something they didn’t like that they didn’t know what it was.

Since windows became a multi-user operating system since xp, the days of running in a user account with a standard user profile temporarily accessing admin privileges from within the user account with standard user profile is an absolute blast. It’s exactly like running linux being in user space and accessing root privileges when needed. XP, vista, and win7 utilizing standard user profile is great stuff. Windows does have great security in the form of standard user profiles.

People need to use their computers differently is what i am recommending.

Would they do this? Probably, if they could get away with it. Let’s make sure they don’t, by encouraging healthy competition and supporting the efforts of those who produce software for free.