This whole story of the open source and free available Linux distribution gets a new spin because of this:
To summarize the video, which is very long in comparison to the usual YT stuff
, I can say that the machines in the near future will be more locked than today. Everyone using an iPhone already knows that there is an App Store where you get your software from. You are not allowed to install different software und if you use the possibility to do so (jailbreak) you loose warranty and it is a crime. Well, this is just he beginning (!). From what I have read and heard Apple will continue with their store for their forthcoming Macbooks, Mac Minis and iMacs, so for all of their sold hardware/machines. Windows is planning to do so too, so what does this mean to you. Well you rely on what Apple and Microsoft thinks is "good for you". In addition to that the guy in the video is talking about hardware to control that you are only allowed to install this and that software. So in the near future you can buy a Microsoft machine which allows you (!) to install different types of software while you are not allowed to install for example an open source software which you could have easily have loaded from the net.
What do you think of it? Is this an argument for bringing Cross to Linux?
Cheers,
Steve