Re:I don't want a phone with apps (Score 5, Insightful)

Well you certainly have a resonable point about being "joe consumer" and wanting to just get something that works. But the the rights of joe comsumer are exacty what is at stake. When the corporations (I am not making a political statement) create a device under the TCP they WILL contend that it is illegal to create software for the device. The DMCA has a provision that allows for the reverse engineering of a device for the process of creating software. However it is the process of creating software/development and its inherent nature that will come under scrutiny. On the bright side the TCP is not legislation. It is a consortium (I guess a kind way of saying colusion) of companies. If the TCP is fully realized the consumer will be morbidly limited to what they can actually do with the device. Ergo over time you will pay much more money for functionality because essentially the open source community will be unable to legally create, distribute and refine software.