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The grumpy editor's e-book readerThe grumpy editor's e-book readerPosted Jul 23, 2009 12:44 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)In reply to: The grumpy editor's e-book reader by dlang Parent article: The grumpy editor's e-book reader
> they claim that they will not do the same thing in the future (the backlash did work)
It's interesting that a lot of people feel that the problem is solved by Amazon.com announcing that they will refrain from abusing their power in the future. I don't feel that way at all. I think that Amazon.com *having* that power in the first place is the problem. If they refrain from abusing it, this just hides the problem from the public -- it doesn't solve the problem.
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The grumpy editor's e-book reader Posted Jul 23, 2009 15:24 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
if they have the ability to update your software, they have the ability to do _anything_ to your system.
so, unless you intend to insist that they remove the ability to update the OS, they cannot remove all ability to remove files from the system, all they can do is promise not to abuse this ability.
The grumpy editor's e-book reader Posted Jul 23, 2009 21:51 UTC (Thu) by ebs (guest, #30411) [Link]
This is certainly true, so the real fix is to remove that ability from Amazon completely, or (this is what I did) at least disable AUTOMATIC firmware updates + disable that ebook removal feature.
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