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Re:The Coming War on General Computation (2011) by Aqueous on Sunday August 18, 2013 @12:52PM (#6233233)
Android phones are not locked down, at least not nearly to the same degree as iOS devices. I can pretty much do anything I want with my phone.

As long as i can still buy a general-purpose computer for $200 that can do/run anything I want, or pay for processor cycles like a utility like I can with AWS, this will seem like computing purist's paranoia. It's a lot like Stallman's regular speechifying, when it strikes me that while he's not completely wrong, he's not really right either.

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Re:The Coming War on General Computation (2011) by rmk2 on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:55PM (#6234415)
I don't know about you, but I had to void my warranty in order to be able to use adblocking, proxy servers and run a ssh server on my phone. I would hardly call that "not locked down".
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Re:The Coming War on General Computation (2011) by noir_lord on Sunday August 18, 2013 @01:36PM (#6233411)
> I can pretty much do anything I want with my phone.

The use of the word pretty contradicts your assertion that they are not locked down.

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Re:The Coming War on General Computation (2011) by Aqueous on Sunday August 18, 2013 @02:22PM (#6233576)
Ok, by default I can do pretty much everything I want, and with a little work I can do everything I want.
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