> This anxiety of an imminent all-encompassing wave of DRM where you can only run approved software on all your Windows/Linux devices has been going for more than 10 years.
So much longer. Go read any of the warnings that Cory Doctorow has been writing for 20+ years about the imminent war against general purpose computing, how DRM will end our right to use our own CPU, and then look at the date lines, and then ponder whether literally any of his predictions have come true. Some people have made entire careers out of talking about this.
So much longer. Go read any of the warnings that Cory Doctorow has been writing for 20+ years about the imminent war against general purpose computing, how DRM will end our right to use our own CPU, and then look at the date lines, and then ponder whether literally any of his predictions have come true. Some people have made entire careers out of talking about this.