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The reason for not being optimistic is that lots of people are touting UEFI locked bootloaders as a step in the right direction (under the excuse of security) while most of the rest will look at those crippled subsidized Win8 ARM tablets and say "look! shiny!". Sadly, "Idiocracy" is a prophetic movie...
I see idiocracy only in failure to understand, that "common people" have different priorities form you, nerds. And for them security is priority. "UEFI locked bootloaders" for them is just meaningless phrase and they couldn't care less about that. How stupid is to think, that if you are computer nerd the whole world should be to? Have you seen doctors moaning about world becoming idiocracy just because not everyone k…
Re: BYTE Interview With Richard Stallman (1986)
#41Doctors don't create.