rant

Look, the whole point of the *personal* computer was that you didn't have to rent time from
IBM to figure out your profit/loss balance.

Ever since then, every computer company has been trying desperately to revive the "You
only rent it" model to bolster their bottom line, no matter their public face on the question.

We're getting closer and closer to no longer having personal computers which we own and
can configure/control as we wish but rather Microsoft or Banana computers for which we pay
a regular fee.

Pfui!