From: Boris Kraut Organization: Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:35:08 +0200 Category: Message-ID: <20120708193508.jjdN55@silberbruch> Keywords: Comments: To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Zitat des Tages FreeSoftwareFoundation: > Distributors of restricted systems usually appeal to security > concerns. They claim that if unapproved software can be used > on the machines they sell, malware will run amok. By only > allowing software they approve to run, they can protect us. > > This claim ignores the fact that we need protection from them. > We don't want a machine that only runs software approved by > them -- our computers should always run only software approved > by us. We may choose to trust someone else to help us make > those approval decisions, but we should never be locked into > that relationship by force of technological restriction or law.