We should not overlook this attractive form factor’s great potential, we should demand it for ourselves. Portable, low power consumption computing with universal wireless access is a very desirable thing. With bluetooth, you don’t need connectors for keyboards and other input devices. With USB video, the form factor is not limited by it’s display size. The same can be said for PDA sized devices. Xstroke is an excellent input method for portable computing. We should demand these things in free forms from equipment makers. We should also demand that bogus patents on input methods be eliminated. Multitouch and effective graffiti input are things that people should be able to sell without fear of lawsuits. Apple is a villain in all of this and should be shunned no matter how well built or attractive their hardware. Microsoft and Apple are the primary reasons hardware makers have been so unresponsive to obvious hardware needs for the better part of a decade.

Do you think IDG called it an open source organisation on purpose, or is the author just inept? It was a very badly written article in general, little more than plagiarising, sorry, paraphrasing, the anti-drm petition page.

Well, I suppose any sort of coverage is better than none at all.

And wow, the register article is quite fair about the dfd campaign and it’s importance, as are the comments, very well informed. Much in contrast to the arstechnica article from the earlier post, whose comments were just disturbingly uninformed (bordering on, and often breaching, offensive) for a presumably techie readerbase (or disturbingly astro-turfed).