23 Nov
2025
23 Nov
'25
7:34 p.m.
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
devices.