[ale] Cory Doctorow, right again

Michael Trausch mike at trausch.us
Fri Mar 16 13:21:13 EDT 2012


Oh? What are you working on, if you don't mind my asking?
On Mar 16, 2012 1:19 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
> > than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
> >                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”
> >
> >
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