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	daperl	2010-04-23 , 07:29
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Originally Posted by gerbick

Now, with that said, don't dismiss what I'm saying. Simply put, all of this freedom has netted not much. Like my father once said... "people take freedom as to meaning they can do a whole lot of nothing..."

If I couldn't choose to do "a whole lot of nothing," could I be considered free?

And that's what I see. A fractured bunch, waiting on updates and apps with no real corporate apps in sight, on a platform that can compile a few languages that support the admin types on their phone that if they're not careful might lead to a re-flash but no real attempts at an expansion of the phone as a platform - outside of the wifi hotspot app, I admit that is pretty darn fly.

I can't help feeling that you're just seeing what you want to see.

In statistical terms, the promise of FOSS is very similar to an unsupervised clustering algorithm with good data. The cream will organize and rise to the top.

Apple is being steered by a deeply passionate visionary dictator.

Although diametrically opposed, both strategies can be very successful, and both strategies can coexist with an uncorrupted or fair rule of law. I'm slightly more optimistic than texrat.

The freedom to do everything has so far produced nothing.

I'm not sure that it matters, but I don't think you even own an n900. So as someone that does, and as someone that also enjoys a freedom that very few will ever know, I have to disagree with you. The freedom to do everything produces the only things worth producing.

And yes... I'm totally playing devil's advocate

And I'm playing freedom's advocate.

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