| > Do you also run an open BIOS, no CPU ME, no cellphone basebands, OSS controllers in your hard drives, and control the firmware on all of your USB/PCIe peripherals? I saddly can't answer all these questions with yes yet, but I'm constantly looking to improve that situation. Still, my situation is better in that regard than what most people have. Most people are literally illiterate in the digital world. Schools are failing in this aspect. Often they ignore the digitalization or think it just means to use new media and the internet, which is the totally wrong angle to teach this transformation of our world. Google is especially evil in trying to profit from this situation by creating schooling centres where Google teaches its vision of a digital world using its tools and services. > And if you don't, you're a hypocrite who should be more sympathetic to the numerous compromises that exist in reality. Why am I a hypocrite for stating a simple fact? If you use propietary system, you are at the mercy of somebody else who most likely woudn't even answer your questions about it. I'm very sympathetic to what happens to people around me and also those that are not around me. That is why I advocate for legislation and regulation to solve this problem. The state must fund free and open software and legally require open documents. Also, they must finally get their shit together and properly integrate the digital world into schools, and no, this is not done by giving every child a tablet. I want this to get better for everyone. Still, I have little sympathy for the decision to buy for example Apple products. There are alternatives that are more open. Whoever chooses the closed system whenever an open alternative exists unnecessarily takes a risk by given a very limited set of people a lot of power over them. Don't do that, don't choose proprietary systems. Don't use Windows, don't use Apple products. It's not hard not to. |