BBC News – Valve boss Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 a ‘catastrophe’.
Microsoft is going down the same path as Apple. So much for freedom.
“There’s a strong temptation to close the platform,” he said, “because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors’ access to the platform, and they say, ‘That’s really exciting.'”
One of the reasons that MS Windows dominated the landscape for so long, was that it was possible to do what you wanted on your own machine.
This move may not even matter to most people – or at least that’s what they are being told to believe – and they don’t know any better because they don’t know enough about programming, systems, or logic to do anything other than use other people’s applications anyways.
The truth is, it DOES matter.
Step by step, as we become ever more dependent on technology, that very technology is becoming controlled by fewer and fewer people. Information is being ever more cleverly controlled by being run through and manipulated by increasingly complex sets of programs we are assured have our best interests in mind. Most people are now so far out on the surface of their devices that they have no way of determining whether what they are are being told is truth or lie.
Most don’t even see just how illiterate they have become.
