The Coming War on General-Purpose Computing

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Here are a video of a talk and an article about the subject.
They are the same talk, but for the ones (such as myself) who find it easier to listen than to read, I've added the talk on video. The Video also features a Q&A session at the end.

Now we not only have to fight for free software, but also, for free (as in freedom to use) hardware.
It started with Apple, now Microsoft also wants to lock down ARM devices, and even some Android phones are starting to be shipped with bootloaders trying  to prevent you from installing a newer version of the open-source smart phone operating system, so that when you want a newer version of the OS, you have to buy a new phone.

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing - http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

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The beatings will continue until morale improves !!

c'mon Dave, you gotta make that the EEVblog theme.