Correct. Prevent software patenting. Perhaps we could shoot all lawyers at the same time.

Google is now heavily laced with Ads, now Canonical. I think Canonical is selling out, and I think the whole web is getting too damn commercial. Everyone has been trained by TV I guess.

And / or missing. So many media things just don't work as advertised out of the box. I've been using Linux since it was available, and before that Solaris and Unix. What I see wrong with Linux are all the damn customizations and different versions. Berkeley or AT&T. This distribution or that. The bloody millions of cute or differently coloured interfaces. Etc. Awhile ago, I decided on Arch Linux, and to build all my experiences into one. This is happening well and is an example of Linux goodness, which cannot be had without the badness, I guess. But why zillions of distributions include, for instance, pulseaudio, and insist on newer and ever newer booting procedures is dumb, IMNSHO. It's a system designed originally by brilliant minds, now handed out in distributions like Halloween concoctions, one by one, by creative idiots. On the other hand. I won't live without it, and until someone proves to me that the new MS secure boot cannot be easily overcome, it is in danger.

My comment Subject says it all. Apple used to have a cachet. Not just because of Steve Jobs, but for a certain ethic and care about the interface. Well, it was all Xerox Parc and F'n Bill Gates. They are now, behold, CORPORATE, and monopoly driven, and doomed for the gates of hell.

was a theme of my childhood and up until now. 64 stupid years, as I will be pretty damn soon.

Apple just packaged up unpatented research at Comp Sci grad schools & Xerox Parc, and now wants to monopolize the market, as did Microsoft and Adobe before them. Robbers with expensive lawyers. Very very common ideas - patent office is to blame. The older I get the more I think the communists were right.