Great Terminal but still locks us out of our OWN HDWR! – OpenTerm Review

Hmm, if I buy an x86++++ computer, I can run any compatible os on ir, and, if skilled enough, make it get up and bark! If I buy an Apple pocket computer/telephone, I possibly will break a law if I alter the OS on MY OWN device. OK, you own the car, but don’t dare looking under the hood, which is welded shut anyway, but here’s this nice sealed off program that does everything with the PD programs running your phone EXCEPT let you change them, personalize your own system, because we don't want you to. You can, with a level of skill I’ll never have, change any aspects of Windows, as long as you don’t tell anyone - very hard work with no uncompiled code, let alone comments snd guided even to 3,1. You are supposed to have the right to rewrite all except maybe an eighth of the code on your iPhone or other Apple product, based on the licenses behind most of the “Apple OS” - demonstrating a terrible flaw in various “copyleft” schemes. Apple, like the Red Hat programmers who, in my book, stole the OS for the world’s fastest computer saved a lot of R&D bucks using software given away by authors for the greatest good. Red Hat will at least give you commented code / good luck getting the Oak Ridge Boys to let you play with their roy, though. Apple simply ‘steals’ the code, puts a pretty face on it and days “go to hell or court if you want to change your own phone! At least they’ll let you use apps like this one, that let you use Linux yo change dome other computer, maybe even one you don’t own, sez Apple.. It’s a great start, but I’d still like to choose my own default browser, use programs that make it harder for the Apple with a rotten corp to let me do the hardware side of an apple plug to USB3* i/o system while friends fo the soft side, run real secure code on MY phone, or at least change keyboard size to fit my fat fingers! But that would stop is from selling the alleged non-personal use data the rotten corp boys dell because charging $1,000 for a phone made by folks earning poverty wages building our toys. THIS little app is a great start, the first commercial crackerbox you can slide into your pocket, if you’re inclined to behave like the SF home computer club that went evil - though still slightly cleaner than GOOGLE, may Trump’s replacement send anti-trust police into every corporate orifice over there. For noelw, writers - keep the improvements coming / as I said, I’m hardware and program in solder - dumb question: is it possible to allow Terminal to contact the system OUTSIDE the sandbox as data coming in/out of a program shoehorned into the real OS and gain access to ring 0? Meanwhile, I suggest all of you great folks writing open code add a clause fo your copyright, saying attaching your code, or code derived from looking at your code (check our some of the late Great Harlan Ellison’s suits for the ways IP can be protected) BECOMES as open as your creations, even if your code is a separate element of the total - if this were in place, Apple would HAVE to provide complete doc on the complete changes AND its own additions. Or you can start selling out by selling away this agreement as mandatory as “you wanna use Facebook, you hand over everything we can extract, parter, steal, mash up and sell to anyone we can make a buck selling to anyone.” You may not get rich, but you’ll emerge a genuine hero, and you won’t have to keep scrubbing bloodstains off your hands. Think of it, a way to use Apple Maps or gps without anybody else finding out where you are and where you like to eat. And if they break the tules, you get a third of the abusive company, those tracked share the rest!
Review by inkstainedwretch ,retd. on OpenTerm.