Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be...
by wilsonnb on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:43AM
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>Until people start thinking that "it's better to just let the big companies lock down hardware, then everything will just work!"
Do a large number of people not already think this? I'm pretty sure that's why Chromebooks and iPads are appealing to many people.
Convenience is worth the sacrifice of freedom if you were never going to use the freedom anyways. It's not even a sacrifice if that's the case.
If someone offers to pay my rent on the condition that I never climb Mt. Everest, I am technically sacrificing freedom for convenience but I'm still going to do it because I wasn't going to climb Mt. Everest anyways.
It just takes a good number of people getting together and settling on a set of standards. The beauty of the general purpose computing device is it can support any and all at will.
Until people start thinking that "it's better to just let the big companies lock down hardware, then everything will just work!", which leads to hardware impls or subsystems like UEFI that actively fight to deprive the User of their rights to total control of their tool.
No thanks. My machine. My code, my rules, and my data. No one else's. i'll accept the onus of learning how to secure and safely use it. Convenience isn't worth the sacrifice of freedom.