At the height of Windows's market dominance, Microsoft had no role in determining what software would and wouldn't run on its machines ... (Yet with walled gardens like iPhone rising) Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore found his iPhone app rejected because it contained "content that ridicules public figures."
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lozz
12 years 43 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago
GNU/Linux
In spite of his great search for some angry nerds, Zittrain seems to have overlooked all the angry nerds who inhabit the Free Software World of GNU/Linux.
Someone needs to tell him that there's a whole world outside the confines of proprietary software that he's yet to discover.
Superbowl H5N1
12 years 42 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago
Per-processor licensing
Maybe I'm not reading well enough but in Zittrain's excellent writing he misses the illegal activity that got M$ it's desktop monopoly in the first place. That included, but was not limited to, per-processor licensing.