a lot of this is why i'm so adamant about using linux, about using open protocols, open resources. i get weird looks from those around me but...

this technology works _for_ me. when i say i want the computer to act as an arm of my mind, it does that, and it does it so very well. it doesn't question me or try to fit me into a one-size-fits-all situation.

it's such a different, liberating feeling from using something which treats me as merely a consumer.

all corporate media is like this eventually; they need the power users to grow, to gain a foothold.

but after a certain size, they feel these users are a hindrance to further growth, and start trying to shed them, rationalizing any way they can.

the goals essentially become completely at odds with those of the users that made them what they are in the first place, forcing them to essentially betray their origins.

and so the cycle repeats...

so when the owners of technology that i use, that i have welcomed in as a part of my thought processes, have decided that i do not deserve the right to control this software, i have an almost violently negative reaction, because they're trying to take away not some tools, but an actual part of me.

saying power users would be better off with less control is a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of why they want that control in the first place.