No, the public is dumb.

The last 20 years the entire continent allowed PC software to be stolen and made client server, now every piece of software is spying on us because of mass computer illiteracy.

20 years ago hackers and nerds on slashdot feared Microsofts and the industries move towards hardware and software drm when the internet was just reaching the masses.

The last 20 years has been the public buying client-server drm infected software en masse.

Everything that used to be a local PC app is being pushed client-server, in such a world on privacy can exist and the public rewarded Ultima online, Everquest and world of warcraft.

For those of you who don't know, two or more PC's in a network behave as a single machine, that means whoever programs the machines in the network LITERALLY OWNS THE ENTIRE NETWORK. AKa it's the ability to rewrite the laws of every computing device on the planet and the speed of light is fast enough to take over every machine on the planet.

It's no longer merely "programming apps". It's literally stealing software en masse from the public. AKA to program now is "issuing commands", so now software can be infected with commands that take over your PC and remove your control and ownership. This is what windows 10 is about.

Some of you make complain that software was always "licensed" and I'd tell you that those laws were bribed into being by corporate lobbyists because Capitalist governments have always been ruled by corporate elites that have rubber stamped their own laws, if in doubt see the last 200 years of IP law. The public interest lost every time, that is a blow out of the public interest never winning once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...

The fact that so many are gung-ho about "software as a service" here not grasping the huge political implications, you can't possibly audit all the software apps on google play, mobile, or steam, uplay, origin, etc. So these companies can do whatever they want and since our mind did not evolve to respond to these threats, many of the public just shrug their shoulders, because the human mind did not evolve in a technocratic society, so won't perceive nor act upon the danger.

So no, the push towards locked down filesystems you can't access in windows 10, encrypted binaries and vm's, UWP, is the big push to put bombs in honest binary blobs to make software unpreservable.

All these incentives exist because they know the public is dumb, the fortnites of the world and TF2's hat economy, told valve and big tech companies to keep pushing because the public will eat endless amounts of shit because they most of them don't care.

Imagine it's the 90's and you're buying your first PC and microsoft sells you windows, except it requires an internet connection (aka the hardware dongle) and parts of windows files and functions are held hostage on remote servers in microsofts office, most hackers of the day would not buy those PC's.

That's what "software as a service" is for many of the dolts on hackernews, its hardware dongle enabled software by way of internet and splitting all of what used to be local applications into two pieces.

It's the end of local applications on our PC's and mobile devices and most of you don't seem to be alarmed, it's the end of privacy permanently.

Because we didn't get any property rights to own our software outright with source-code, this is why steam, world of warcraft, and all new PC games like quake champions, overwatch, exist.

The end game from the early 90's was this dystopian state where all PC's on the planet are turned into dumb clients and the entire society moves to a mainframe model where no one owns their devices.

Without software ownership, our devices our useless and given the criminal way in which IP law was written for software, privacy is not coming back.

So to say the public is bright when it handed everything the nerds feared to the corporate world on a platter is bullshit.

The entire silicon valley industry is having a part at how dumb the public is, the "client to cloud" revolution is LITERALLY, stealing local apps and trapping them on company servers so they can finally turn software into property and kill the "local file" loophole on PC's to "kill piracy" by way of software as a service, the public has no idea what NTFS is.

Microsoft is now testing remote control of your file system and PC via gamepass, where companies can now set permissions to files on your PC via remote.

This is what the nerds feared in the 90's on slashdot and it has come true. The fact that hackernews is basically pro "cloud" is disturbing enough on its own.

Here's the industry celebrating the death of local user control of PC's.

https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...