I have been a happy Kubuntu user for a long time. So long that I almost forgot how the Microsoft driven Internet experience behaves. After many years I finally removed my dual-boot which contained a Windows Operating System; I did not use Windows for many years, unless my Kubuntu OS was giving me trouble. Once fixed, I immediately returned to the Linux experience.
A year ago, my daughter sent me an iPhone as a gift. I am old and appreciate the quality gift, a piece of equipment I did not value enough to feel worth while owning, and found that I like it's convenience very much.
Recently Apple decided to make changes in their contract agreements with iPhone users. Now, if you want to update an application you own or was provided, you have to agree to a 20 page in fine print document that only a lawyer would understand.
People have become complacent in recent years and take for granted these agreements and agree to their content, because they know they will not be able to use these addictive products if they do not. As a result they continue to agree to things they would not agree if they read and understood the content.
The fact that the Windows model of being driven by lust and greed is overtaking all of the previous ethical concerns when Apple was not affiliated with the evil, giant, blood sucking parent, a quality company has become corrupted into the evil child of an unprincipled parent.
Linux has made so much forward progress, that the enemy has changed their battle plan trying to seduce Linux users into the lust-greed family. Their toys, phones and the like are very seductive and tempt users to participate.
It's the same old garbage. Entrapping the user is their goal and controlling the use of the wondrous technological products which are now available is the new way to keep Open Source, the care and share way to enjoy life, from getting an increased share of our environment.
Who, among our people is willing to read the content of a take it or leave it 20 page, fine print, document to continue their more free experience in an established and demand product.
I am neither rich nor important, but I have a mind and willingness to reject the evil changes that are growing in this nation. I will not agree to their freedom diminishing contracts. I will then be unable to receive the updates and upgrades that I am entitled. In, what I believe, is probably a very short time, my phone will stop functioning in all the attractive ways provided in the large monthly price to use. At some point I will stop using their products altogether.
I believe the growing respect given to Linux users is an indicator of the weaknesses of the other side. They can see the writing on the wall and are trying to use new and devious ways to trap users of the care and share group of people.
I believe that perhaps the only way for our cause to continue and increase in the Open Source philosophy of fair and morally acceptable behavior, will be to either boycott the changes by rejecting the new changes in practice, or to find new people to invest in the creation of higher quality phones and other equipment that can compete with the immoral giant manufacturers, just like Linux has throughout the years.
I do not believe it will not take as long to show the progress we are now realizing with Operating Systems made by Linux systems. Developers like Kubuntu, Red Hat, and the many others, and the many donating contributors to this cause have done, basically have performed the necessary legwork for an ever growing Open Source experience.
The monsters we have fought against have weakened due to reaching the limits of their greed filled nature. People are finally saying enough-is-enough. They are finally willing to take a look at items that do Not have the fancy label. The many that try the Linux experience sometimes feel a little embarrassed for taking so long to experience the lower cost, higher quality, absent from lust and greed life they have become so familiar with and used to.
Pride is something people seem drawn and desire. But who actually likes the person with his nose in the air and the prideful stride. Perhaps they like his thing-filled environment, I don't know, but most seem to like or even prefer the people who share and give and help others much more. Who do you really like, the braggart or the slightly self deprecating and modest achiever.
Now is the time to contribute to the Open Source philosophy. Get off your corpulent butts and read and reject the fine print documents. Contribute to the contributing producers, and reject the enticements to join the enemy in the computer and communication market.
All the stuff we want and need from the Internet, the supplier of information, is provided to Open Source and lust/greed motivated users alike. The difference is, when motivate by lust and greed you are continually on the websites that result in spyware, adware, virus', lust and greed. When you are among Open Source users, you rarely go to those sites. As a result, you are able to get the information you need without being assaulted by a barrage of people with their hand in your pocket.
It is a totally different experience. In the change to Open Source, people hardly notice the absence of a virus or the annual cost to keep it out of their computer, or the renewal cost for any improvements that a company makes for their newer software, or a supplier hijacking their preferred site to steal the business away from them, or any of the other negative by-products provided in a Microsoft lust and greed filled environment.
Now view the behavior of a new Linux user who stays with Linux long enough to be comfortable with the different way the Linux Operating System works, in the care and share environment, then view their return to the Windows lust/greed environment for nor more than a day, and listen to their disgust and contempt for their prior Operating environment.
Thats MHO.
A year ago, my daughter sent me an iPhone as a gift. I am old and appreciate the quality gift, a piece of equipment I did not value enough to feel worth while owning, and found that I like it's convenience very much.
Recently Apple decided to make changes in their contract agreements with iPhone users. Now, if you want to update an application you own or was provided, you have to agree to a 20 page in fine print document that only a lawyer would understand.
People have become complacent in recent years and take for granted these agreements and agree to their content, because they know they will not be able to use these addictive products if they do not. As a result they continue to agree to things they would not agree if they read and understood the content.
The fact that the Windows model of being driven by lust and greed is overtaking all of the previous ethical concerns when Apple was not affiliated with the evil, giant, blood sucking parent, a quality company has become corrupted into the evil child of an unprincipled parent.
Linux has made so much forward progress, that the enemy has changed their battle plan trying to seduce Linux users into the lust-greed family. Their toys, phones and the like are very seductive and tempt users to participate.
It's the same old garbage. Entrapping the user is their goal and controlling the use of the wondrous technological products which are now available is the new way to keep Open Source, the care and share way to enjoy life, from getting an increased share of our environment.
Who, among our people is willing to read the content of a take it or leave it 20 page, fine print, document to continue their more free experience in an established and demand product.
I am neither rich nor important, but I have a mind and willingness to reject the evil changes that are growing in this nation. I will not agree to their freedom diminishing contracts. I will then be unable to receive the updates and upgrades that I am entitled. In, what I believe, is probably a very short time, my phone will stop functioning in all the attractive ways provided in the large monthly price to use. At some point I will stop using their products altogether.
I believe the growing respect given to Linux users is an indicator of the weaknesses of the other side. They can see the writing on the wall and are trying to use new and devious ways to trap users of the care and share group of people.
I believe that perhaps the only way for our cause to continue and increase in the Open Source philosophy of fair and morally acceptable behavior, will be to either boycott the changes by rejecting the new changes in practice, or to find new people to invest in the creation of higher quality phones and other equipment that can compete with the immoral giant manufacturers, just like Linux has throughout the years.
I do not believe it will not take as long to show the progress we are now realizing with Operating Systems made by Linux systems. Developers like Kubuntu, Red Hat, and the many others, and the many donating contributors to this cause have done, basically have performed the necessary legwork for an ever growing Open Source experience.
The monsters we have fought against have weakened due to reaching the limits of their greed filled nature. People are finally saying enough-is-enough. They are finally willing to take a look at items that do Not have the fancy label. The many that try the Linux experience sometimes feel a little embarrassed for taking so long to experience the lower cost, higher quality, absent from lust and greed life they have become so familiar with and used to.
Pride is something people seem drawn and desire. But who actually likes the person with his nose in the air and the prideful stride. Perhaps they like his thing-filled environment, I don't know, but most seem to like or even prefer the people who share and give and help others much more. Who do you really like, the braggart or the slightly self deprecating and modest achiever.
Now is the time to contribute to the Open Source philosophy. Get off your corpulent butts and read and reject the fine print documents. Contribute to the contributing producers, and reject the enticements to join the enemy in the computer and communication market.
All the stuff we want and need from the Internet, the supplier of information, is provided to Open Source and lust/greed motivated users alike. The difference is, when motivate by lust and greed you are continually on the websites that result in spyware, adware, virus', lust and greed. When you are among Open Source users, you rarely go to those sites. As a result, you are able to get the information you need without being assaulted by a barrage of people with their hand in your pocket.
It is a totally different experience. In the change to Open Source, people hardly notice the absence of a virus or the annual cost to keep it out of their computer, or the renewal cost for any improvements that a company makes for their newer software, or a supplier hijacking their preferred site to steal the business away from them, or any of the other negative by-products provided in a Microsoft lust and greed filled environment.
Now view the behavior of a new Linux user who stays with Linux long enough to be comfortable with the different way the Linux Operating System works, in the care and share environment, then view their return to the Windows lust/greed environment for nor more than a day, and listen to their disgust and contempt for their prior Operating environment.
Thats MHO.
Therefore, I have no personal experience with Apple, its philosophy about anything, iPhones, etc., but I do know that Linux, including Android, suit me really well.
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