cloudkiller's Journal: Spinning

It seems to me that everyone who has a clue hates the current state of patent, copyright, DRM and every other restrictive thing being done to technology today. So why does it fly? Why do people buy and put up with this garbage? Is this just the /. effect happening to me? By that I mean: read something on /.; get really pissed; tell the other geeks in my office about it; get pissed together; install another linux distro on my windows machine using VMware; feel better knowing they can't take linux away from me; completely forget about the article and never experience its results; go back to using windows because i have to; check the /. rss on firefox; repeat.

Has it always been like this? Back in the 80's were people talking about how all of your 5 ¼ disks are being replaced by some overpriced hard-floppy disk that was wasting so much plastic that the earth would be covered in it from the millions of copies of leisure suit larry? I don't even know if I should hope that was the case or not. All this spinning seems to have separated me from my sensibility. I better go and install Vista while I still can.