* Posts by JEDIDIAH

2525 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2009

No one needs Blu-ray, says Microsoft exec

JEDIDIAH
Linux

3.5G > 35G ???

> Well, not really... Blu-Ray supports both MPEG2 (which a lot of disks use) and MPEG4.

Yes. Really.

You're trying to claim that a 35G BluRay in h264 or VC1 can be replaced by a dramatically smaller file with a considerably lower bitrate. The sums just don't add up.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

It's the content, not the pixel size.

There's a big difference between seeing the difference and caring enough to buy all new gear and media. Although there are plenty of people that can't notice the difference. It's just like how many people are perfectly content with medicore mp3s.

Either way, what that other guy said is right: it's the content that matters.

If you are in a position to obsess over pixel clarity, then clearly the movie has failed to properly grab you.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Same pipes, controlled by the same people.

Were people really that far behind 10 years ago? There's all of this talk about how backwards the US is supposed to be in terms of broadband price and speed. Did the rest of the world just leapfrog us or somesuch? I am using the same broadband technology I was 10 years ago.

Most important of all is the fact that the same players are dominating the scene. For many people, their cable company is their ISP. That doesn't bode well for trying to replace them with various forms of downloads.

I have a very respectable download speed and I still see Netflix stumble. I also have occasional outtages. I might have satellite outtages too but I wouldn't notice as much as I've got a fat PVR sitting in front of it. The sat could be offline for a month and I might not notice. (big drives)

Coders tip Google Android for eclipse of the Steve

JEDIDIAH
Linux

A total non-enterprise platform.

> If you want to deploy an application on ipad or iphone,

> the only requirement is that the users have itunes

> installed on their local machines

The 80's called. They want their outdated application deployment methodology back.

> Sure, there are other annoyances about enterprise deployment

That's putting it lightly.

Steve Jobs in iPhone bitchslap to creationists, Tea Party

JEDIDIAH
Grenade

Knickers in a twist.

> Theres no reason to think that creationists would be woefully upset at this app.

Clearly you do not follow this sort of thing.

Jailbreaker alert: Apple TV runs iOS

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Take the most complicated and proprietary option possible...

> If you have an iOS device, it will wirelessly send any H264 video to the

> Apple TV. There doesn't need to be a load of intelligence or different

> apps in the aTV as they're all in the handheld device.

This is really quite stupid. Instead of having all of your bulk power in a box that is stationary and plugged into wall power and perhaps wired networking, you have it all in your phone. You're much better off having a dumber portable device and a more powerful stationary.

All of the proprietary approaches to moving iPod data around are really silly when all you need is simple file sharing and a player next to the TV that can actually play everything.

Plus there is wireless HDMI too. So there's no need to use an Apple specific protocol for this either.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

ABA -- Anything But AppleTV

> Round of applause for wasting money then Shane.

Agreed.

> Mine is configured so that any media I download or save into

> my video library on my PC is automatically available in the

> living room on the Xbox.

Got the same setup with MythTV. XBMC will do this too.

> Thanks Microsoft for making products that just work.

Even a proper Mac will do the right thing here. You don't

have to go running to Microsoft. You just have to be willing

to not drink the (apple flavored) cool-aid.

Open systems play more stuff and allow for simpler connectivity.

The "just work" without being horribly limited in order to achieve that.

Secret Apple deal hints at TV future

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Apple DVR huh?

I am not sure that the Apple faithful really think they are going to bring to the party here. Current generation recording gear already deals with the main technical hurdle that comes with S1 generation Tivo gear. While they probably do better at Microsoft at creating a better DVR for dummies, they probably are unlikely to do better than Tivo. Even if they do, they still are left with the same problem that Tivo has.

Cable companies are the gatekeepers of their own walled gardens and they aren't about to let Tivo or Apple in. 3rd party solutions will continue to be more expensive and at a competitive disadvantage to cable companies.

Trying to kill Big Cable is probably a better approach (as much as it pains me to say it) for Apple.

Oracle spins own Linux for mega hardware

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Someone should remind Larry about the GPL

Someone should remind Larry about the GPL.

All of the improvements he's been making most certainly need to be released to any Oracle customer allowing those changes to filter back into the mainline kernel.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Where have you been?

> Solaris has very good NUMA capability, a fantastic

> filesystem, proper multi-pathing, and proven large

> memory deployments. Do any of those features exist

> to the same level in Linux? Or did I miss something?

Yes you did. You missed when Linux surpassed Solaris in scale and size of NUMA machines.

There are some monster SGI machines running Linux that dwarf any Sun out there.

Although Oracle excels in clusters. Companies got tired of paying Sun prices for NUMA machines. The started making clusters of non-NUMA machines from Sun and then took Sparc out of the equation. That's why you see all of the silly Penguin logos all over San Francisco during Oracle OpenWorld.

Warner Bros flogs Nikita on iTunes

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Flight of the Freetards...

>> However, the Warner move removes one plank in a common

>> freetard defence..."I am only doing this because it is not

>> available and I must see this now".

>

> Not for the true freetard who runs Linux, ITunes isn't available.

This "freetard" has some of these shows wasting space on his MythTV master backend right now.

Dunno about your side of the pond, but these are carried by broadcast channels over here. If not for the crap signal quality, I would get these shows from an antenna for free.

This DRM nonsense with iTunes is why I like DVDs. I can rip them and play them back on whatever device or whatever OS I want. I can even cater to Apple's restrictive requirements if I want. Although I prefer the Archos for it's storage capacity.

The whole point of something like iTunes is "getting it now". If iTunes can't "give it to me now" then really what's the point? Just wait for the DVDs and pay less.

That's what I do with HBO content since buying what we watch is cheaper than subscribing to the channel. Plus I can sell those disks to my fellow "freetards" when I tire of them.

Amazon help keeps Apple in line.

Die-hard bug bytes Linux kernel for second time

JEDIDIAH
Linux

A Bug versus a Virus.

> is the poor little linux boy getting upset because someone is

> getting a taste of the same medicine every other OS gets

> when a fault is found.....

It's not the same "medicine" at all.

When Windows has a problem it's usually much more meaningful and real malware is released to the wild and people's systems actually get infected. The architecture of the system makes a bug like this far less dangerous.

Local root exploits are as old as Unix and predate Linux entirely.

Intel eats crow on software RAID

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Down with WinDevices

> This means more fakeraids. STOP THIS NONSENSE.

Agreed.

If you are going to buy into software RAID then just back away and let the OS handle it. Just support enough channels so that the Operating System has something to work with.

Just support more SATA channels in system chipsets across the board.

Make 6 standard and 10 common.

RAID or not, a cheap board with lots of SATA ports can be very handy.

Road test: putting the iPad to work

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Woohoo!

> My ipad's jbroken and with a nifty application called iFile

> i can mount any SD card or USB key on the device (with

> the help of the photo kit hardware).

You can do something similar with the Archos 5 and the battery dock but the UI is rather gruesome. Although the Archos benefits from having 30x more storage.

I was putting off getting the Apple dongle because I don't trust Apple. I want to maintain control of anything that I create. I want to be sure that it's not altered and that I can get at it with any tools or OS I want to.

>

> Tho i do understand why something like that wouldn't be

> mentioned here -- imho the device should be able to do

> these tasks without having to be modified.

My wife's "killer app" is from the Cydia repository.

Perhaps El Reg should mention these sorts of things...

Police spent tens of thousands on failed BitTorrent probe

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Crime fighting should not pay

...the whole point of "policing" is the fact that you think something is so wrongful that it is worthwhile that you "lose money" on the whole proposition. Criminal investigations and prosecutions are for those things that are so bad that you want to get rid of them despite the monetary cost.

It's Torts that should not be bothered with unless the money makes sense.

Big Content is really annoyed about how most cops would rather go after shoplifters, or murderers, or drug dealers, or terrorists. Society doesn't really value "copyright crime".

$60K? That's like what the girl sued for using Kazaa got stuck with just for sharing a single song.

SciDB: Relational daddy answers Google, Hadoop, NoSQL

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Your app really isn't all that.

> Also, many applications don't need high integrity levels.

Most of those aren't harmed by the overhead of a proper database either.

On the other hand, a proper standardized algebra with some built in safety and recovery features comes in handy for other boundary conditions besides raw performance. It's not just about speed and most apps really don't need to be fixated on speed to the exclusion of all else.

Skimping on the data engine can cause other issues in the future.

Jailbreaker iPhone app store snaffles up competitor

JEDIDIAH
Linux

It's like hearing the clueless rant at the GPL.

Yes. How dare those people make money selling things to individuals that want to use their own personal property any way they see fit!

Jailbreaks simply allow all buyers and sellers to act with the freedom they should have had to begin with and the same freedom they have on a Mac or a PC.

Windows malware dwarfs other viral threats

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Cue the Lemming FUD Machine

> Targeted by over 99% of malware and yet most people manage

> to do what they want and apparently enjoy doing it.

No not really. It just has a long standing commanding market position that makes it difficult to flee from. People like you will help build that perception.

Email worm wants to party like it's 1999 (almost)

JEDIDIAH
Linux

You should never need to fear data.

There's no good reason to be afraid of a DOCUMENT that's been sent to you. Microsoft's insistence on blurring the line between data and programs and the tendency to just run things automatically regardless of source is where this nonsense comes from.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

The cause has always been painfully obvious

> You won't help but always mock Windows for these viruses but why you don't look at the cause?

I already posted my analogy.

This happens because Windows is the OS that thinks it's a good idea to lick the sidewalks.

THAT is why this nonsense continues to happen.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Do you lick the sidewalk?

Well, your computer thinks this is a good idea.

The average n00b user should not have to worry that their OS insists on ingesting every piece of crap it finds on the sidewalk in the poorest part of the city. It should just a little bit smarter than that.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Not everyone is "geeky" like you...

> Am I the only one that disables that as pretty much the first thing on a new Windows install?

Probably. At least on this side of the pond there's a well established cult of elevating ignorance and a tendency to treat computing as something that you need to be extra smart in order to understand in the least tiny way.

So most people are probably not "fixing" their systems.

They really shouldn't come pre-broken to begin with.

Defaults should be sensible and sane.

Apple TV: Third time unlucky, Mr Jobs

JEDIDIAH
Jobs Horns

1 meter might as well be a light year.

>> "Are you going to pay £/$1.99 every time your

>> kids want to watch IceAge3 again. And again. And again?"

>

> Just buy it on iTunes, and stream it from there, instead of renting

> again and again and again.

Better still. Buy the spinny disk from Amazon and rip it.

Creating an intermediate step of any sort kind of defeats the point of an appliance like this.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Grandma already has a Wii.

> Ultimately the Apple TV is just an extension of the

> iPod/iTunes experience, which you either buy into

> or not. Your average geek is going to be able to obtain

> music elsewhere

At least in the US, everything being released these days can do Netflix streaming and other things like Amazon or YouTube. It's in the TVs, it's in the spinny disk players. It's in the game consoles.

You don't have to be a "geek" for an AppleTV to be redundant.

It's not like this is AppleTV vs. MythTV & MCE. This is AppleTV versus the entire rest of the consumer electronics industry.

Grandma already has a Netflix subscription and streams through the Wii.

JEDIDIAH
Grenade

Apple is last to the party this time.

> Does no other geek see a niche market in the making here?

Nope. Roku already has a box that does what the AppleTV does.

It's only advantage is iTunes.

Ultimately, it is the same old failed product in a smaller case with less capable playback hardware.

Porn and pirates hide Android's money maker

JEDIDIAH
Linux

The Debian AppStore.

> Where's the Mac/Win/Linux AppStore

"apt-get install Osmos"

Infact, if you pay attention to Cydia when it's doing it's thing you'll notice that it's just running Debian's packager. The whole "app store" thing is just a dressed up version of Debian.

I interact with my iphone and my Ubuntu box in a very similar manner when it comes to "apps": I hear from some guy or website about a cool app and to go look for it in the package manger. Searching either package repository directly is less useful. Both just have too much to sort through really. Apple's is mainly dressed up better. Plus it includes proprietary 3rd party payware.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Curation Schmuration

As a user I really don't see the "added value" of Apple's allegedly superior approach. The best apps are still the things I hear about through "word of mouth" or otherwise through 3rd party sources. If I see a bunch of things in the appstore, I am still pretty much forced to try every single one of them out to sort out what's decent or useful for me. The ratings and approval nonsense doesn't do squat to help me find what's usable or likable.

Although I have seen iThing apps mysteriously disappear, be discontinue d from the store due to lack of ongoing developer payments or just had issues with iTunes s*itting itself and needing to be reinstalled from scratch (the 9.x versions of iTunes).

Less need to be dependent on questionable appstore payware of course is going to probably be percieved as a net loss to developers.

Pundits predict plunging iPad market share

JEDIDIAH

Steve Jobs is Big Brother

> I like the iPad, my family loves the iPad; it was my money and my choice!

Keep on telling yourself that bub.

OTOH, my family is impressed with the shiny happiness of their iPad too. They still reach for the Archos when it's time to watch a movie (or ten) and there's still some things you need a proper computer for.

The netbook isn't going anywhere either.

Both represent stuff that Apple has intentionally left off.

The limitations of Apple products are self-inflicted. They choose to make it hard to get stuff in and out of the device freely. They might find enough consumer couch potatoes that such limits don't become a problem.

...or not.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

It's still just an iPod.

> Having had the misfortune of having to use a Acer Netbook, I don't see Apple

> being particularly worried about the 'pundits' right now

Actually, Acer actually puts respectable keyboards on their machines unlike HP or Dell.

If Acer rises from the ashes it will be due to the fact that someone wants to visit some Flash site, or browse it in a non-mobile browser, or do something really strange like save or print or move their own data around.

The last time I left the netbook at home, I wish I would have brought it along. It does what the Apple device refuses to do. Sometimes that's handy. (like last trip)

Undead Commodore 64 comes back for Christmas

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Apple is the anti-Commodore

> but then it would be a mac and the idea is to make something that doesn't suck

Not to mention CHEAP. Putting Apple hardware into a Commie chassis would be a travesty.

A travesty I say!

Since a Mac is specifically designed to fit in it's particular brick, there's no saying it's even possible. Whereas PC components of all sorts are cheap and plentiful. This is why modders have already pulled this off for themselves.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Put the commie next to the TV where it belongs.

> Nvidia Ion2 graphics? it wont be able to run much more than C64 games with that

It will be able to decode BluRay.

That means that it could be an interesting sort of HTPC with the wierd retro case and the built in keyboard.

Firefox, uTorrent, and PowerPoint hit by Windows DLL bug

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Cluless Microsoft Apologists...

> It's not really a flaw per say and doesn't just affect Windows but Linux,

> Unix, Mac OS and nearly every other OS out there.

What?

Unix looks for system libraries in $PWD? News to me.

You know that funny looking file layout that the rest of you weenies like to make fun of. It's designed to specifically avoid precisely this sort of situation.

Executables are in one place. Libraries are in another. User data is in yet another.

Oracle forms new 'axis of evil' against open source, claims Adobe

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Stop ignoring vdpau you hypocrites!

Larry has his problems certainly.

However, the fact that his company was OK with Linux help put it on the map at a time when everyone else was trying to ignore or bury it. Adobe really hasn't done very many favors for Linux. They tend to help "spread the FUD" in their particular area of expertise (desktops).

Adobe is in no position to talk here. They like to put out crap and then make lame excuses.

Adobe: add full support for vdpau into Flash and then come and talk.

Better yet: actually support Linux in some meaningful fashion.

Linux kernel purged of five-year-old root access bug

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Conflating bugs with actual malware.

> the Linux fanbois wouldv'e ripped Microsoft a new one by now...

The Linux Zealots would never have noticed what with all of the real exploits and trojans and worms out there in the wild causing havoc and bringing the internet down and whatnot.

With Windows, there's plenty of low hanging fruit.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

The Subtleties of X

> If it's a case of simply needing to run a malicious X program, then presumably

> it could be done remotely over ssh -X for example.

Nope. The X server runs on the local machine. No GUI of any sort needs to be

running on a server if you are running an X application on it remotely. The part

of X that needs to do root level bit-banging and would cause the problem is going

to be running on the machine that is the "terminal".

JEDIDIAH
Linux

The 20 year old stuff should be free.

> Nice to see that even the Linux fanbois don't believe in

> commercial software on their penguin infected boxes.

If you take the average person's box and take off all of the stuff that represents 5 or more shovelware updates over 10 or 20 years or more then you don't have much left really. Most of what's on a common PC is strictly "commodity" stuff that should be pretty much devalued by now. Some of it isn't because of proprietary standards that interfere with the replaceability you have with proper physical commodities.

A word process or web browser that's mostly unchanged for years and years should be gratis.

Although the real problem with something like Windows is not the stuff from EA or even the stuff from Penumbra but all of the random stuff out there written by who knows who that can somehow manage to get automatically run for you.

Creating a freeware trojan for Linux or any other Unix should really not be such a big deal if the local root exploit is available. The problem is running it. the trick of a proper virus is propagation.

People have no bloody idea about saving energy

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Lies, statistics and surveys...

The bit about glass bottles struck me as curious because I was always under the impression that glass bottles were not "recycled' but actually reused. It was my understanding that in the old days when glass bottle return was the thing, they just cleaned the old bottles out.

No "re-manufacturing" was done.

Re-use versus re-cycling is not a distinction to be taken lightly.

Pollution is also something to consider as opposed to just energy.

Although Green partisans tend to be most vocal about chasing away anyone with an actual clue (or heaven forbid an actual environmental engineering degree).

iPad hits Asus Eee PC sales

JEDIDIAH
Linux

PCs get cheaper. Nothing to see here...

For the cost of an iPad you can get yourself a pretty respectable full size laptop. When you compare the differences in price versus functionality, it just might not make a lot of sense anymore to people to buy a cheaper netbook. A lot of the distinctiveness of netbooks has disappeared as their specs have been beefed up. Plus PCs and laptops are cheaper all around. The whole "netbook" thing is simply a reflection of how PC technology gets cheaper over time.

The new tiny Sony Vaio laptop/netbook is much like the old tiny Vaio laptop. Although the price has been dramatically reduced.

Archos 7 Android tablet

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Clueless naysayers

It sounds like a lot of people are just dismissing the device out of hand based on "specs" without actually using the thing. Sure, trash the device but at least do so on it's own merits rather than repeating Apple marketing.

Want to use WD diagnostics? Buy Windows

JEDIDIAH
Linux

So much for industry standards.

This is a storage vendor.

The idea that they only expect to deal with Windows is a bit absurd.

Microsoft should starve on radical penguin diet

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Focusing on all the wrong details...

> Why do people spout the bs about MS being a convicted criminal.

Because most people simply are not anal rentive lawyers.

Calling them convicted monopolists captures the essence of the situation even if it leaves room for Lemming to quibble about minutia.

Microsoft has been persued by the US Department of Justice on multiple occasions for anti-trust activities. A judicial finding of fact has even been made against them on these accusations.

Even civil jurors are prone to use the term "guitly".

iPad alert: Are you a selfish elite or an independent geek?

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Really Really bad analogies...

> No-one ever bitches that their monitor isnt open source, or that they want to jailbreak their keyboard.

Monitors and keyboards are PERIPHERALS. They are IO devices you plug into a computer. They aren't the computer. They don't need to be jailbroken. They already conform to the relevant industry standard for devices of their kind.

I don't need to "crack" my monitor to allow it to work with FreeBSD.

I would have to do that to allow an iPad to work with FreeBSD.

If you haven't jailbroken your iThing, you really don't know what you're missing. There could be some killer app out there calling your name but you will never hear the call. You can't because you've chosen to stay inside the garden.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Power users versus Consumers

> In general, stuff from Apple isn't for geeks, its

> for artists and normal consumers.

Yes. It's not for people that want control of their own multimedia. It's not for people that want control of their own photos. It's not for people who are organized and have their own ideas about how things should be sorted out.

It's not for people that want to optimize video for every little last bit of quality and compression or just might want to play some oddball bit of content that they found on the web or got from friends or family.

"artists" indeed.

Apples are "consumer" devices that are fine so long as you are cool with the limitations.

This is where something like an overgrown ipod turns off geek. It's not about how this tech has been given to the masses. It's how LIMITED it is and how restrictive it is. I can't just connect to the device directly and add and remove things. I need a special proprietary app that's terribly crude and limiting in it's own way.

"geek" used to be someone that wrote their own stuff or built their own stuff.

Now it has been redefined to the sort of person that installs Plex on a Mac.

Mac sales tripled since 2005

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Skeptics are not welcome.

> Your anti-elitism stand has become the new elitism. Apple

> users are so fiercely loyal because most have used the

> alternatives and made the choice to stick with Macs because

> they like them better. Most Apple haters haven't used Macs for

> any length of time and are arguing out of a position of ignorance

> on what the platform has to offer. It's like describing the color

A minimum "buy in" of $700 certainly doesn't help that any.

You've got to be a serious gadget geek with money to burn to buy a Mac to casually play with. So generally, anyone that has a Mac will be the "converted and the faithful". So naturally that leads to very skewed observations when it comes to the platform.

Also, you have the problem of varying requirements and the likelihood that a lot of us with reason to pick Macs apart have more interesting requirements or some precise notion of how things should be done (rather than being satisifed with the choice presented).

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Media overkill

>> Their PC is still an also ran.

>

> I think the point was that Mac sales are climbing rather

> than falling. Not what you'd expect from an "also-ran."

> More of an "upstart".

It's a nice trend but it's certainly nothing to get excited about. This article is the perfect example of an attempt to OVER HYPE something. It appears to be an attempt to create a reality by distorting perception. It's much like the rest of the recent Apple hype.

It also reminds me of a lot of the media nonsense with DOS and Windows in the 80s and 90s.

At this point, given all of the rhetoric coming out of Cupertino I would be more worried about Apple's continued comittment to the platform. It's strategic direction clearly seems to be elsewhere. I am not sure I would want to push anyone into that.

Yes. Seriously. I was recommending Macs for n00bs (long before it was fashionable) but now I won't be doing that anymore.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

It's great as long as you stay on the reservation.

> It's odd, because when I look at the Windows market, all I see

> is countless sheep who go out and unquestioningly buy beige.

> Why do you all do that?

The usual justification for MS-DOS, is that it "runs everything". That can be a pretty compelling argument assuming that it works out. That means for any set of requirements you will find something suitable and functional.

The problem with Macs is that they trade off functionality for usability. Narrow the focus of a problem down enough and it becomes easy to solve. The problem then becomes when you want to do anything beyond that narrowly redefined version of the problem.

THAT is where the Mac fanboy herd menality comes in. It's at this point where you start to see a cultish sort of attempt to shout down dissent.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

The numbers really don't lie.

> have you heard of OSX?

Dwarfed when compared to PhoneOS.

All of the fanboy gushing about particular Macs doesn't alter this.

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics.

The numbers really don't lie.

Apple's iPod sales dwarf their PC sales. Their PC is still an also ran. This is why the iPad was released as a variation on the iPod rather than a Mac. An oversized iPod/iPhone builds on the momentum that Apple has been building with those products. Whereas the Mac has languished in the margins for over 20 years.

Attempts to spin the numbers really don't fly.

Apple's own actions and Jobs' own remarks on the matter are also quite clear.

Some of us have compared iPad and Mac sales numbers as a way to denigrate the iPad and deflate the hype and nonsense surrounding it (ipad).

Linux police offer deviant Android return from exile

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Clueless lecturing proles

> Imagine if your DVR skipped the last five minutes of a film it was recording because

> the Linux distro it was running decided that it was more important to download and

> install some software updates - you wouldn't be pleased.

I would be far more worried that the system was offline during a recording because the OS allows the software to "run amok" and "run the show".

And yes I have have been using Linux based PVRs of one form or another for more than 10 years.

Of course this whole discussion is going on at a level of the system not adequately captured by your "example".

JEDIDIAH
Linux

Old School Bell Labs Engineering

Actually, AT&T (you know, those people that originally wrote Unix) made their reputation based off the idea that phone hardware should be selfish. It should first and foremost ensure it's own survival and then to treat the service of end user requests as entirely secondary.

This approach worked out very well actually.

"Pandering" isn't always the best approach.