6 Jan
2012
6 Jan
'12
6:44 a.m.
Hi all, this is a long talk, and slightly O/T, but quite interesting I think if you have a bit of reading/listening time this weekend now the cricket's finished ;) Doctorow makes some telling points about problems with trying to 'lock down' general purpose (often Linux-based) computing machines, and thus germane to the FOSS software world from a broader perspective. http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html -- Pat.