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Corporate Paws Grab for Desktop (Wired)

Corporate Paws Grab for Desktop (Wired)

Posted Sep 10, 2002 8:11 UTC (Tue) by beejaybee (guest, #1581)
Parent article: Corporate Paws Grab for Desktop (Wired)

The only way to counter this is through an information campaign.

We need to persuade consumers, and even more importantly corporate buyers, that locked hardware is not appropriate for PCs. Because it stifles innovation and freedom of choice.

Is there any possibility of publishing a blacklist of locked hardware suppliers so that we can organise a boycott against them? The time to do this is NOW, whilst we still have a choice ... when the possibility of buying equipment from suppliers who don't supply locked hardware has gone, it'll be too late!


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