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Re:Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream' by loup-vaillant on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @12:45PM (#2328255)
You seem to think that convenience and privacy are somehow mutually exclusive. For a non programmer right now, which often has the choice between convenient proprietary spying software, and hard-to-use free software, I can understand. So does RMS, by the way: "Few people are willing to make the sacrifices he will for the goal of software freedom, Stallman acknowledges".

But in the long run, those issues are orthogonal. Encryption doesn't make user interface suck. Neither does the licence.

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Re:Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream' by SoftwareMaven on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @01:15PM (#2328408)
They are not completely orthogonal. For example, it will always be harder to send completely secure messages because you are now doing more things: managing keys, exchanging keys, etc. I agree that security/usability is not a one dimensional continuum, but they aren't independent variables, either.
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