[ale] Cory Doctorow, right again

[Charles Shapiro]

I'm out there workin' on it.  Not getting ripped off or surveilled can
be a powerful incentive.

-- CHS

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:10 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 01:06 PM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>> The User of a Device should have Control over the Software Running on
>> that Device.
>
> Of course, but try convincing the “normal” people in the world of that.
>  The problem is that they don't really care.  If it Just Works, they are
> happy.
>
> This is the major reason that I love Android-capable phones.  For that
> matter, you're not even really restricted to running Android on them,
> but it would be kind of inconvenient to do anything else.
>
> I would LOVE to see a really efficient smartphone operating system that
> can breathe new life into old hardware like the G1.  I understand that
> as we move forward and more functionality is added, the operating
> systems get heavier and heavier... but I can't help but think that if
> the whole system were in optimized native code in the first place, the
> on-flash and in-memory footprints would be significantly reduced and the
> system would be better for it.
>
> Oh, well.  Long live Java and Dalvik, I suppose.  :)
>
>        --- Mike
>
> --
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> than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
>                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”
>
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