Re: Cory Doctorow on iPad, Apple ][+

[Mike <maginnis@computist-project.net>]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:56:52 -0700 (PDT), DaveSchmenk
<dschmenk@gmail.com> wrote:

>An excerpt from his latest rant - kinda true, though:
>
>Infantalizing hardware
>Then there's the device itself: clearly there's a lot of
>thoughtfulness and smarts that went into the design. But there's also
>a palpable contempt for the owner. I believe -- really believe -- in
>the stirring words of the Maker Manifesto: if you can't open it, you
>don't own it. Screws not glue. The original Apple ][+ came with
>schematics for the circuit boards, and birthed a generation of
>hardware and software hackers who upended the world for the better. If
>you wanted your kid to grow up to be a confident, entrepreneurial, and
>firmly in the camp that believes that you should forever be
>rearranging the world to make it better, you bought her an Apple ][+.
>
>pasted from:
>http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either.html
>
>Dave...

Interesting article, though my own reasons for not buying one aren't
as idealistic.

- Mike