The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
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Re: The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
#2These days, many computers only run authorized software, and trusted boot is fairly secure. They’re integrated hardware/software systems. This article is out of date, and a bit biased, to boot.
Re: The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
#3These days, many computers only run authorized software, and trusted boot is fairly secure. They’re integrated hardware/software systems. This article is out of date, and a bit biased, to boot.
It was published in 2012 though. Why do you say it is biased? I thought it was agreeable.
Re: The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
#4> But in general, the poorer and younger you are, the more likely you are to be a tenant farmer in some feudal lord's computational lands.
An analogy that will probably define the 21st century...
Re: The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
#5These days, many computers only run authorized software, and trusted boot is fairly secure. They’re integrated hardware/software systems. This article is out of date, and a bit biased, to boot.
Which article would you recommend on this topic?
Re: The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
#6These days, many computers only run authorized software, and trusted boot is fairly secure. They’re integrated hardware/software systems. This article is out of date, and a bit biased, to boot.
Not at all. Secure boot is opaque to most. Gigantic monolithic actors in the realm of hardware and software collude to keep the plebiscites from making anything too disruptive without them quickly running into an audit process that can be used to ensure that any virtue can be clean room redesigned by the monolith...
Yeah. Seems pretty prescient to me.
Re: The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
#7This is something Stallman[1] and others have talked about for a while now, with this article having been published in 2003[2].
Re: The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
#8These days, many computers only run authorized software, and trusted boot is fairly secure. They’re integrated hardware/software systems. This article is out of date, and a bit biased, to boot.
Not at all. Secure boot is opaque to most. Gigantic monolithic actors in the realm of hardware and software collude to keep the plebiscites from making anything too disruptive without them quickly running into an audit process that can be used to ensure that any virtue can be clean room redesigned by the monolith... Yeah. Seems pretty prescient to me.
Could you elaborate in plain English? Your comment makes no sense to me.
Re: The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not at all. Secure boot is opaque to most. Gigantic monolithic actors in the realm of hardware and software collude to keep the plebiscites from making anything too disruptive without them quickly running into an audit process that can be used to ensure that any virtue can be clean room redesigned by the monolith... Yeah. Seems pretty prescient to me.
Could you elaborate in plain English? Your comment makes no sense to me.
Big guy keeps little guy out of mainstream hardware with threats of intellectual property litigation.
Re: The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
#10These days, many computers only run authorized software, and trusted boot is fairly secure. They’re integrated hardware/software systems. This article is out of date, and a bit biased, to boot.
Which article would you recommend on this topic?
https://reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/ ?
Joking, of course. Half-joking.