Comments on: Bill Gates’ vision of the future http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3495 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:43:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3495/comment-page-1#comment-8399 Reader's Write Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:16:13 +0000 #comment-8399 Microsoft will be here long after you are gone. (as long as the planet is still inhabitable... ;-) ) Microsoft will be here long after you are gone. (as long as the planet is still inhabitable… ;-) )

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3495/comment-page-1#comment-8393 Reader's Write Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:17:16 +0000 #comment-8393 Unless all the coding geeks fell off the earth today I suspect things are not quite as bleak as the tone of that story went. Yeah, DRM is going to get worse but with every single attempt at DRM thats been made there's always been some 14 year old kid that can crack it and release it to the world.... If you build locked down hardware, there's a geek that'll figure out you can solder this pin to that one and wala, its unlocked...... Intel and AMD have not been successful in locking their CPU's from overclockers for example.... so good luck with locking down whole pc's to only run the way they were intended at the mfr.... Oh needless to say, as long as there are new linux versions and old hardware we're looking at fair-use being available to us for a few more years to say the least. .....Bill gates - You can't win them all. lmao! _-Jile-_ Unless all the coding geeks fell off the earth today I suspect things are not quite as bleak as the tone of that story went.

Yeah, DRM is going to get worse but with every single attempt at DRM thats been made there’s always been some 14 year old kid that can crack it and release it to the world….

If you build locked down hardware, there’s a geek that’ll figure out you can solder this pin to that one and wala, its unlocked…… Intel and AMD have not been successful in locking their CPU’s from overclockers for example…. so good luck with locking down whole pc’s to only run the way they were intended at the mfr….

Oh needless to say, as long as there are new linux versions and old hardware we’re looking at fair-use being available to us for a few more years to say the least.

…..Bill gates – You can’t win them all. lmao!

_-Jile-_

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3495/comment-page-1#comment-8386 Reader's Write Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:30:21 +0000 #comment-8386 Blame the OEMs for not offering us a choice. Call up your favorite computer OEM today and ask them what choices they offer. How is average Joe-consumer going to get an alternative if all that is offered is Microsoft. If you are not sastisfied with your OEM's answer then contact Harry Saal with The Technical Committee http://thetc.org/ and tell him how you think Microsoft illegally is limiting competition. Blame the OEMs for not offering us a choice.
Call up your favorite computer OEM today
and ask them what choices they offer.

How is average Joe-consumer going to get an alternative
if all that is offered is Microsoft.

If you are not sastisfied with your OEM’s answer

then contact Harry Saal with The Technical Committee http://thetc.org/

and tell him how you think Microsoft illegally is limiting competition.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3495/comment-page-1#comment-8377 Reader's Write Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:10:15 +0000 #comment-8377 Let microsoft impose sucky restrictions on the great uneducated mass which composes a large portion of computer users. It keeps attention of industries away from the better alternatives, allowing developers for those systems to build more powerful interfaces and circumvention technologies for those of us who DO care about our freedoms. Let microsoft impose sucky restrictions on the great uneducated mass which composes a large portion of computer users.

It keeps attention of industries away from the better alternatives, allowing developers for those systems to build more powerful interfaces and circumvention technologies for those of us who DO care about our freedoms.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3495/comment-page-1#comment-8376 Reader's Write Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:54:53 +0000 #comment-8376 So much for offering something that people may actually want to use: an easy-to-use OS that is secure and does not deprive the user of 'normal' activity 'rights'... a good reason why people switch to Linux to begin with. So much for offering something that people may actually want to use: an easy-to-use OS that is secure and does not deprive the user of ‘normal’ activity ‘rights’… a good reason why people switch to Linux to begin with.

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