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Geeks tend to have more philosophical differences with things like DRM.

But real people get annoyed with them the first time it hits them (like UBISofts DRM servers going down, or realising they can't take their Kindle books to a different book reader).




I think we have philosophical differences partly because we can see the potential impact on all users somewhat ahead of time.

It's quite hard to convince people that it really is important to maintain some ability to control their own computing devices even if they have no intention of directly doing so themselves.

I often think that climate scientists must have similar problems.




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