[cap-talk] [Off-topic] Correlating Bitfrost with Threats

[David Hopwood]

James A. Donald wrote:
[big snip -- apologies for losing context]
> People who want to be free should buy their own @#$%^&* computers.  You are never
> going to free the masses, and trying to do so will just bring you grief.

I thought the whole point of the OLPC project was that many people can't afford to
buy their own computers.

I fully endorse Marc Stiegler's comment: "You always take [the customer] seriously,
but you try to give him, not merely what he claims he wants, but something that
makes sense." Any engineer designing a system has ethical responsibilities to that
system's end-users, as well as to the engineer's direct customers.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>