Comment the easy button syndrome (Score -1) 535
All this talk about "what the people want." Of course people have intrinsic desires and drives but how many billions of dollars are spent on advertising in order to change the way people think? To make them want what the existing corporations want to sell them, whether software, hardware or anything else. The big boys don't want informed capable users, they want helpless infants who will pay whatever is demanded of them.
I know we all get frustrated with how dumb people can be at times, but people are bombarded and manipulated by thousands of ad messages a day trying to make them insecure, superficial and helpless. That's why the average user doesn't care about the same things that free software types do. Perhaps this is idealistic, but I refuse to believe that humanity has overcome so much and progressed so far just so that 95% of us can get turned into zombies by our dumbed down computers and tv.
I know we all get frustrated with how dumb people can be at times, but people are bombarded and manipulated by thousands of ad messages a day trying to make them insecure, superficial and helpless. That's why the average user doesn't care about the same things that free software types do. Perhaps this is idealistic, but I refuse to believe that humanity has overcome so much and progressed so far just so that 95% of us can get turned into zombies by our dumbed down computers and tv.
