Yr last comment, i do not get. These articles show why capitalist style competition actually fucks up any product in any industry. Those articles had almost nothin to do with th machines and everything to do with money. This is why M$ is winning on dirty tricks n propaganda, while Sony, still def a big bastard corporation (eg: rootkit/DRM bollocks), but willing to develop a decent architecture, is gettin a hosing.
Allow me to clarify: while th competition is for profit, th product suffers, stands to reason. Consumers need to wise up, ignore th hype, and make th competition all about product, ie: stop being consumers and become co-creators.
Is this going to happen any time soon? Sad to say, i guess not. We'l proly hafta wait for th whole cancerous fuckd-up system to fall over in a steaming heap before we see open-source style being applied to everyday physical products. We'l proly hafta start with food & water (& possibly shotgun shells).
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Date: 2007-02-23 04:44 pm (UTC)These articles show why capitalist style competition
actually fucks up any product in any industry.
Those articles had almost nothin to do with th machines
and everything to do with money.
This is why M$ is winning on dirty tricks n propaganda,
while Sony, still def a big bastard corporation (eg: rootkit/DRM bollocks),
but willing to develop a decent architecture,
is gettin a hosing.
Allow me to clarify:
while th competition is for profit,
th product suffers, stands to reason.
Consumers need to wise up, ignore th hype,
and make th competition all about product,
ie: stop being consumers and become co-creators.
Is this going to happen any time soon?
Sad to say, i guess not.
We'l proly hafta wait for
th whole cancerous fuckd-up system to fall over in a steaming heap
before we see open-source style being applied to everyday physical products.
We'l proly hafta start with food & water (& possibly shotgun shells).