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:All Hail Our Benevolent Corporate Overlords
All Hail Our Benevolent Corporate Overlords
Mar 10, 2010, 22 :32 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (2883 reads)

(Other stories by Carla Schroder)

"After reading Electronics Manufacturers Use US Legal System to Thwart Hardware 'Hacks' I was all set to type a fiery response, but Linux Today readers beat me to it. In a nutshell, the tech industry is accelerating its attacks on our rights to do what we want with our own property....

"Isn't that special. The nice people at Apple are making sure that dumb kids and senile old people, and all the rest of us don't hurt ourselves, because we're too stupid to make our own decisions."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
It is the very concept of "intellectual  ...   IP makes us THEIR property...   
Robert
Mar 10, 2010, 23:05:00
 
as I see it, is that the concept of earn ...   The basic problem...   
jp
Mar 10, 2010, 23:11:12
 
The subject of this comment response is  ...   Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal   
Michael Tiemann
Mar 11, 2010, 02:07:42
 
By way of comment, I'll simply add a ...   Seeds of Tyrany   
anon
Mar 11, 2010, 03:32:07
 
Quote: "The vast majority of Apple's ...   Apple really do care that people can't hack th   
John Allen
Mar 11, 2010, 07:56:15
 
[...].> "This, and no other, is the root ...   Re: Seeds of Tyrany   
Rainer Weikusat
Mar 11, 2010, 10:50:40
 
I agree with everyone's assertion th ...   Easy now...   
Johan
Mar 11, 2010, 11:00:17
 
> Now, if everyone and their mother are  ...   Re: Easy now...   
a nonny mouse
Mar 11, 2010, 14:35:07
 
> Is it possible for any given generic s ...   Re: Easy now...   
blackhole
Mar 12, 2010, 10:17:55
 
If the h/w manufacturers don't want  ...   Allowing hackers is crackers   
P.Woods
Mar 12, 2010, 20:39:29
 
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