Monday, April 2, 2007
Open Source, the only weapon against "planned obsolescence"
Open Source, the only weapon against "planned obsolescence"
By Fernando Cassia: 28 Mar 2007
The author of this article feels that "Planned Obsolescence" is sadly here to stay; but there's hope, only one: open source.
While, the planned obsolence has been perfected into a great art by companies such as Microsoft though in a somewhat stealthy manner, in the hardware world, things are much more evident. For instance, while most PDAs out there use a given "family" CPU that is more or less compatible between different versions, often the PDA manufacturer updates the OS when releasing a new model. The owners of the previous model are left with no choice but to dump their perfectly working PDA if they want to get the new OS.
The author thinks the answer to all this madness is simple: open source software.
Read the full post from here @ The Inquirer
By Fernando Cassia: 28 Mar 2007
The author of this article feels that "Planned Obsolescence" is sadly here to stay; but there's hope, only one: open source.
While, the planned obsolence has been perfected into a great art by companies such as Microsoft though in a somewhat stealthy manner, in the hardware world, things are much more evident. For instance, while most PDAs out there use a given "family" CPU that is more or less compatible between different versions, often the PDA manufacturer updates the OS when releasing a new model. The owners of the previous model are left with no choice but to dump their perfectly working PDA if they want to get the new OS.
The author thinks the answer to all this madness is simple: open source software.
Read the full post from here @ The Inquirer
Labels: analysis, hardware, microsoft
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