Cory Doctorow on Nostr: As with Schmidt's desire to spy on you from asshole to appetite for his own personal ...
As with Schmidt's desire to spy on you from asshole to appetite for his own personal gain, and his violent aversion to having his own personal life made public, the tech millionaires and billionaires who made their fortune from the flexibility of #GeneralPurposeComputers would like to *end* that flexibility. They insist that the time for general purpose computers has passed, and that today, "consumers" crave the simplicity of *appliances*:
https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/18/
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