23 Nov
2025
23 Nov
'25
11:51 p.m.
No slur intended, My eyes are bad and mu typing worse.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM Jim Davis <jim.p.davis(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I feel guilt. I worked on BMP at intel for facegook
servers. We didn't
have the handcuffs of TPM,
But we had to 3 party the bit encryption.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM Tarek Hoteit via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
In my opinion, the statement below is true when it all started with
personal curiosity about using a computer. Once the computer became a means
to make money, the utility of using computers got intermixed with money and
business. Greed took over most of the tech world except for the few that
embraced personal computers as personal computersand not to make money off
the masses.
- Tarek
devices.
> One of the greatest joys of classic computing
was running what you
wanted on your own computer.
On Nov 23, 2025, at 7:35 PM, ben via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
>
> On 2025-11-23 8:11 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
> One of the greatest joys of classic computing
was running what you
wanted
> on your own computer. What has happened in
the intervening years? Have
> ‘software walls’ created a computing environment that benefits software
> gate-keepers(owners of computing technology) by monopolizing
creativity,
> freedom to program and establishing a defacto
‘true ownership’. Will
the
future be
this or will it be more like the earliest years of
microcomputing?
Murray 🙂
You have no software ownership any more, or control over you computer.
1984 it was Big Brother, to day it is Uncle Gates.
Ben.
PS: The lesser joy of 'your own computer' is lack of software or i/o