From: "Geo" 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> These issues were all solved long, long ago in the mainframe world.

Since when is "you can't do that" considered a solution?

I'm not saying we haven't come full circle and run into solutions that were
tried on mainframes. I'm saying the promise of the PC was a freeform world
of computers that could do anything the user desired. This is where I'd
like to see some of the software guided consumer devices go.

For example, what is more valuable to the end users, a locked down Xbox or
an Xbox they can customize, modify, and make do new things? This is the
hardware people want to buy, not that locked down copyrighted/patented crap
that you can't even reverse engineer. People like to tinker, they make
devices better by tinkering. Better devices sell more.

Geo.

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