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Thanksgiving is a season to think about all the things we are grateful for, but so often we forget the bits of technology that we enjoy. Here are the pieces of technology I am grateful for:
Digital Rights Management We so rarely think about it, but DRM touches our lives every day. This proven useless piece of wonderful technology brought to us by wonderful narrow-minded people of the music and movie industries brings joy to our lives every time we try to do anything with our legally purchased content. Then, it makes us go buy new hardware, providing an incredible excuse to waste more money.
Dumb Comments Without the occasional dose of stupid, annoying comments, I would never be able to put up with the huge number of intelligent comments. Can you imagine only getting intelligent comments on your blog? No dumb ones and no spam? How would you survive?
Monopolies Ahhh… monopolies… Don’t listen to those people who say they’re bad for consumers or whatever! Monopolies are just another excuse to waste some more money (always fun!) and develop another idol (the company’s marketing department). Besides, without monopolies, we wouldn’t have this guy making a fool of himself.
Open Source Purists I just can’t stand those people who think it is OK to have a little closed code on your system. You know, the people who are too spoiled to use gNewSense. How can you stand touching any evil .doc files and MP3’s? Why can’t they just bug people into using other software! If their boss doesn’t like it, they should just get a new job.
Just in case you didn’t notice, I’m being highly sarcastic.
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It’s amusing that there is a windows logo straight under your article.
http://aronzak.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/plurilists/
Even though you were being sarcastic, There is a good side to some of it:
DRM:
One of the reasons why many are switching to linux, lets just hope that windows DRM and copy protection will continue getting more annoying, especially for legitimate customers.
Dumb Comments:
Some times may be humorous, or even strangely illuminating. Although that rarely goes for spam.
Monopolies:
In some cases are slow when they have to change, competing effectively with MS is probably easier then doing the same in the CPU market where there are already two major actors. (OSX doesn’t count since it only runs on Apple HW)
OSS Purists:
Sometimes are good to have around since OSS projects usually don’t have tons of cash to spare on lawyers, its good to be on the safe side.