[SmokeAndMirrors]

@ Andrew H

It has nothing to do with politics. It's an aspect of the product which is a completely valid issue to a lot of potential users.

Furthermore, I am quite aware that DRM is a separate problem all together from Kindle. The only person who made that conflation is you.

And actually, I don't buy any DRM'ed content at all, from anywhere. Way to make assumptions. You know, to some of us, our ethics actually mean something.

I was talking about the product line of Kindle, which is contextually obvious. Stop trying to clutter the discussion with intentional obtuseness.

The reason current Kindle-owners don't complain is because they are the kinds of users who are ok with walled gardens (and actually, some of them do complain - they just don't do anything about it). They're also the users who get bitten by them eventually. But right-now simplicity is more important to them than anything else, and that's their choice.

But I will say this: the refugees of walled gardens constitute what seems to be a disproportionately large amount of the open-source community. Eventually, a lot of these garden people do get bitten hard enough to finally pick up and move.

You haven't said anything to demonstrate anything that I've said as being false. If you like your Kindle so much, why do you care what I think? Do you just have an emotional opposition to people not liking Kindle?