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	ndi	2010-05-10 , 17:26
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Originally Posted by wmarone

Why not? Apple does it with their devices, every Android vendor does as well (to some extent.) Motorola goes the extra mile with every device but the Droid to the extent that unless you hack the bootloader you won't be able to load a 3rd party ROM.

a) Locking a platform people hack afterward isn't really locking

b) None of those are X86. It's easy to lock down a proprietary hardware with a proprietary OS. It's virtually impossible to do so with X86 lest you risk platform incompatibility. I very much doubt Intel cares who wins the OS wars, as long as they supply the ammo.

Originally Posted by wmarone

I don't advocate switching, I advocate expanding ones understanding to platforms and ways of doing things outside the normal purview. It's how creativity thrives.

Originally Posted by wmarone

That's not Windows. It's trying to be Windows compatible, but the fundamental nature of Windows itself neither open nor free, and cannot be so long as it is wholly under the control of MS.

Fundamental shmundamental. It is compatible with Windows binaries. It is compatible with Windows UI. Save for the logo on the back, it's open Windows. It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck. It has the Windows Application base, and compiles and runs Windows IDEs. If I don't like Nokia's messaging app, I either switch or develop my own.

Also, it matters not if it's open Windows or Microsoft Windows. You should expand your understanding to platforms and ways of doing things outside the normal purview.

I hear that's how creativity thrives.

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