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Re: Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your loca... by DanielStraight on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @11:13PM (#759900)
I think this settles my decision to consider only Android when deciding whether to get a smart phone. If Android is doing something I don't like, well, I'll just change it and recompile. I've said before that if there is any DRM, you don't own it. I think now it may be time to say what GNU and the FSF have been saying all along: if you can't control it, you don't own it. If you can't take it apart and put it back together however you like, you don't own it.

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