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• Needs Sunlight

  2011-09-02 13:48:06

  I suppose that's just another reason both Apple and M$ are so worried about Android having taken off.

• Michael

  2011-09-02 13:52:20

  Gee, you loath Microsoft and Apple, so you whine about them.
  
  How about Google? Cookies set to last for over 30 years... scanning of personal email for the purpose of targeting ads... driving around taking pictures of people's houses - including getting pictures *inside* people's houses through open windows... scanning of WiFi networks and storing the data... adding anyone with a Gmail account as a contact to other services... censoring data in their search results... accepting money for illegal activities for ads... engaging in tax evasion. On and on and on.
  
  To be clear: I am not saying Google is evil. I am noting they are no better than the companies you loath, and yet you give Google a free pass. Your bias is *extreme*, to the point where it comes out in almost all of your articles.

• twitter

  2011-09-02 21:12:44

  Is that you, Florian?

• twitter

  2011-09-02 21:18:03

  Techrights champions people and rights, not companies. To be more straightforward, Microsoft and Apple both exploit users through non free software where Google is making free software. Carriers may have twisted Android into unacceptable things and Google could have prevented that by using a stronger copyleft license but we need to give credit where it is due.

• Michael

  2011-09-02 21:33:42

  Techrights does not "champion people and rights" - it is a tool for attacking people and spread FUD. I have documented this well: http://trw.gallopinginsanity.com/
  
  And look at that bias of saying Apple exploits people with non-free software! Ever use CUPS? Ever use WebKit? Those are both, currently, owned and maintained by Apple. Do you like Apache? Who has spread it to more desktops than Apple? And the idea that Google makes free software as if they made nothing else - hogwash! Where is the source to their tablet software?
  
  And you keep avoiding the question, "twitter": are you Roy posting with a different name? You sound a lot like him... just curious if you really are him.

• twitter

  2011-09-03 02:46:08

  I'm not Roy, thanks, but Galloping Insanity sounds about right for you. I'm done being trolled now.

• Michael

  2011-09-03 02:53:03

  I merely asked if you were Roy... I did not accuse. If welcome reasoned disagreements with me on the points I make.