Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 03, 2004 05:40 PM
I fully understand your sentiment: a viable alternative to a locked down and stripped version of today's peecee is needed (although I do not think that palladium & c. will ever be able to be applied to mass market, for the same reason that a now free population won't accept tyranny for a long time, even in change of a perceived security).
On the other hand, I do not agree on a definition that a "viable alternative" should be as "dumb" as the current OS of choice. Asking a user to know what he's doing is a perfectly legitimate request for a developer.
I'm studing for CS major, and have to admit that I'd be scared as hell of a world where computers are entitled to be "smarter" than me. We are in charge: the moment we create tools that think for ourselves, instead of using them with proper knowledge of what they cand do, and how we can make them doing it, it is the very moment we give up our place of "users".
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Re:to further question that great analogy...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 03, 2004 05:40 PMOn the other hand, I do not agree on a definition that a "viable alternative" should be as "dumb" as the current OS of choice. Asking a user to know what he's doing is a perfectly legitimate request for a developer.
I'm studing for CS major, and have to admit that I'd be scared as hell of a world where computers are entitled to be "smarter" than me. We are in charge: the moment we create tools that think for ourselves, instead of using them with proper knowledge of what they cand do, and how we can make them doing it, it is the very moment we give up our place of "users".
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