Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation
This is exactly the sort of stuff RMS was saying decades ago, but most people wrote it off as "unrealistic" and "paranoid". Its looking more like the right to read every day.<p>Control of Computers/information systems is going to become one of the only real ways to exercise control over people in the future, because it will encompass everything else.<p>Its sad to see people welcome locked down shit like apple products, here with open arms.