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Chris Rawson:

[F]rom my perspective many arguments from free software advocates come across as the kind of petulant all-or-nothing proposition that’s become an increasingly common argumentative fallacy over the past decade. Essentially it sounds to me like the most fervent of the free software enthusiasts are saying, “Either you give me the freedom to do whatever I want, whenever I want, or else you’re Hitler.” It’s the kind of argument virtually every one of us pulls on our parents at least once when we’re teenagers, but most of us grow out of that phase and realize that we must trade away some individual freedoms in order to properly function within a society of rules.

Jails don’t give you the option to leave.

Article from TAB collecting our thoughts on Steve’s death.

Roger Ebert:

Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is a visually ugly film with an incoherent plot, wooden characters and inane dialog. It provided me with one of the more unpleasant experiences I’ve had at the movies.

Many people will say this is their favorite movie.

It’s amazing that the FBI and DigitalOne could be so incompetent.

Paul Thurrott:

it’s download-only, and an upgrade only for those users who have the previous OX [sic] version, Snow Leopard installed. So later system rebuilds will require you to install Snow Leopard first, then Lion.

Wrong, actually. When you install Lion, you get this nifty recovery partition, from which you can reinstall Lion without installing Snow Leopard first.

This article’s gotten the second most comments (83, to be exact) of anything I’ve written for TAB. Most seem to think the Finder is crucial, and couldn’t live without it. Some are completely on board with getting rid of it.

Alberto Vildosola of Android and Me in response to the WWDC keynote:

You know you’ve fallen behind when most of the features you announce are in response to whatever the competition is doing.

Gee, this video demo of early Android looks an awful lot like BlackBerry OS. And then, after the iPhone was released in 2007, Android suddenly looked like this. Coincidence?

By the time iOS 5 arrives this Fall (in the Fall? really Apple?), Google will be getting ready to release Ice Cream Sandwich.

Yeah, and that’ll be on maybe two phones at launch. The rest will have to wait about six months, and most won’t get it at all.

It’s just not his thing.

Peter Bright:

There are plenty of applications that are too complex and fiddly to ever be at home with a touch-first interface—consider a software development environment, or a fully-featured office suite. Leaving these stuck in a Windows 7 ghetto doesn’t seem like a good long-term option.

Exactly. It’d make a lot more sense to develop the touch interface as a separate OS, rather than shoehorning it into Windows. I suppose we’ll see how well it works in time.

A good primer on some of the differences between the two *nixes.

Mike Elgan:

The Chromebook proposition is not the absence of software, patches, servers and hard drives. It’s the removal of these things from your control.