If you don’t think open source is alive and well…
Check out the responses to Chris Dawson and his ZDNet article on the Amazon Kindle controversy:
Don’t like DRM and Amazon’s ability to access your Kindle? The solution is easy: Don’t buy a bloody Kindle!
Dawson’s readers disagree that Amazon — or any company — should have the power to change or reinterpret their agreements post hoc. But those same readers agree that closed formats, vaguely-defined license agreements, and proprietary hardware are lethal to their (consumer) interests.
Users hold the key to unchain themselves from proprietary file formats and DRM if they would only realize they need to use it. As Chris Dawson points out, too bad they have to find this out the hard way.