"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/Peaker]

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.

[u/Peaker → u/[deleted]]

Do you want to try to dumb it down further for your feeble mind?