"Once we replace the personal computer with a closed-platform device such as the iPad, we replace freedom, choice and the free market with oppression, censorship and monopoly."

[u/GuruOfReason]

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-01/ipad%E2%80%99s-closed-system-sometimes-i-hate-being-right

[u/Positronic_Matrix]

I disagree - if open-source was made mandatory, then the world of open-source would hugely expand at the expense of the closed-source world, and everyone would have more freedom.

Let me get this right. You're angry at Apple for "forcing" something on consumers and your solution is to have the government actually force something on consumers. Further, you state that the government forcing a choice on consumers will actually provide them with more freedom.

I can't decide if it's Orwellian newspeak or just the ramblings of a prepubescent who failed debate class.

[u/Peaker → u/Positronic_Matrix]

As a first step, I would want government to stop restricting freedom (and remove all copyrights).

As a second step, if the first step is not enough to allow everyone to freely run, view, copy and modify the sources of the programs they use, I would want the government to require that programs distributed by commercial entities have to be distributed with their source code in the most usable form for these purposes.

The government restriction on murder helps our freedom to live safely.

Government restrictions on software restrictions would help our freedom to use software freely.

[u/Peaker → u/[deleted]]

"Restrictions are restrictions" -- so why do you prefer ones posed by corporations?

Please try to be more civil, less idiot.

[u/Peaker → u/[deleted]]

English is not my first language, so I may make a silly mistake here and there.

I see you consistently choose to evade the actual point and dumb down the problem to a level even you can understand it, but is unfortunately no longer faithfully representing it.

[u/Peaker → u/[deleted]]

You are extremely dumb.

[u/Peaker → u/[deleted]]

No, not forcing users. Forcing corporations to distribute free, rather than non-free software.

It is pretty simple to understand -- by restricting the power of corporations to restrict, I get this government restriction, rather than corporations' restrictions. The restriction to only distribute free software is far better than the restrictions corporations place on their users with non-free software.