The death of Mr Jobs is a positive event.
I'm sorry to break it to you like that. He was a great artist and a moral monster, and he brought closer to the end of freedom every single time he put something out, because he hated sharing. It wasn't his fault. He was an artist. He hated sharing because he believed he invented everything even though he didn't.
Inside all those fine little boxes with the lit up apples on them that I see all around the room, is a bunch of free software tailored to give *him* control. Nothing illegal. Nothing wrong. He obeyed the licenses. He screwed us every time he could, and he took everything we gave him, and he made beautiful stuff that controlled its users.
Once upon a time, there was a man here who built stuff, in Berlin for Albert Speer. His name was Philip Johnson, and he was a wonderful artist, and a moral monster. And he said he went to work building buildings for the nazis because they had all the best graphics. And he meant it, because he was an artist, as Mr Jobs was an artist. But artistry is no guarantee of morality. We need free software.
The tablets that you use, that Mr Jobs designed are made to control you. You can't change the software. It's hard even to do ordinary programming. It doesn't really matter, they're just tablets. We just use them. We're just consuming the glory of what they give us, but they are consuming you too.
