Random thoughts

On copyright.

OK. A bit of a backstory: I'm a Linux user out of neccesity and moral reasons (I try to avoid piracy). I don't hate big businesses. I don't think proprietary software (or art) is evil. I'm a copyright skeptic, though. I'm against plagiarism but I'm also against denying the rights of the customer. If I bought or otherwise legally obtained it it should be my right to do with it as I please as long I don't plagiarize and openly&properly credit (copy it, share it, resell it, use it as many times I want, show it to people, create derivative works of/for it etc.). If I'm not allowed to than I don't own it. If I don't own it... well I didn't actually bought it. Then why is it piracy theft again? Breach of EULA at best. Not stealing. And yes, despite this I think it's morally wrong to pirate anything legally available. Go figure.

On Apple...

I don't have much to say about them, their products look nice and seem to be highly usable, but when I hear about their "innovations" I tend to joke about "iRoll", as I think they somehow convinced the world that innovation equals reinventing the wheel. And as far as I can tell their trend is to do the iTreatment to older and older technologies, which is not bad by any means, just... well... You keep using that word...