What I said and what you are saying, no person could argue against. On paper, it looks great.
But look at reality, and what we do have and it doesn't look so useful a list of ideals anymore.
I am very much against Gov toes. But it really is way past the time something needs to be reined in. Nothing is being done, or has been done, for decades and hope for change to come from the people 'up', has been sold for short term, looping, distraction.
To think my children's children will no longer use the word 'search', they will use the word 'google' but google is google, its not searching. This is the reality.
Politicians are in their pockets so deep before too long there will no one with any power, in power. That's what I see. It makes my skin crawl when Tim Cook talks about how green the Apple Campus is. This is base irony, and not enough people bat eyelids, imho.
>However as far as installing your own OS on the hardware, that seems like something we could require without a downside.
I just don't think they should be involved in dictating how software works at the level a lot of people seem to be hoping for.
Getting the government involved in this stuff brings a lot of negatives along with it, so it needs a damn good reason to go that far in my opinion.