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Old 06-29-2009, 09:28 PM
Larry
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Default Re: The cathedral plus the bazaar: Open source and Apple (design) envy

Mark Crispin <mrc@panda.com> wrote in
news:alpine.OSX.2.00.0906291042020.10452@hsinghsin g.panda.com:

> http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2008/r...ple-inc-31.pdf


Remember when lots of DOS software use to come packaged with serial port
dongles, hardware locks you had to have or the programs wouldn't even boot?

The dongle backlash pretty much destroyed that concept when the computing
public simply stopped buying dongle-protected software, no matter how
wonderful it was.

A similar public backlash needs to result before Apple will stop this shit.
As long as the really stupid fanbois will continue to shell out for locked
up products with built in box offices....nothing will change.

There appears to have been great success in the "dumbing down of America"
as the buyers of this crapware seem to be the victims of our wonderful
Sheeple Education System.....who will do as they are told without question.



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