Kevin Carson:
A business model based on suing online news sources (not to mention search engines!) for linking to your stories makes New Coke look like a work of genius.
Read la enchilada entera.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
AP’s attitude reminds me of the attitude of barbarians in time-travel movies who see someone with a digital watch and decide to burn them as a witch. AP sees some fancy new technology and goes into superstitious, panic-driven aggression, not even having the sense to realise they could benefit from it.
That’s absurd. it would be nice if true, but as long as Microsoft and Apple exist, it won’t be. Google’s OS is Linux with a new GUI to compete with Gnome/KDE and the others. Linux is not currently capable of handling all hardware equally well. Most Broadcom devices don’t work. Many wireless devices don’t, and the state of the Linux sound system is dreadful. It’s unlikely regular folks will get into it in the near future. Maybe 5 years from now the situation will be different. Until then, proprietary operating systems will own a stranglehold on the home computer market.
The battle for the 32-bit desktop is over. The battle for 64-bit desktop computing, has just begun…