No.33
>>32Why would Lain want to do that? I assume that in this alternate world there still exist community-built distros, and it's almost deductively certain that said distros are better for anyone with a modicum of tech smarts and the slightest reason for privacy and control. Copland Enterprise is almost certainly a "professional" walled garden for yuppie marketing managers whether it's open sauce or not. Even the corporate Linuces (Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora, OpenSuSE) are worse for this purpose than the non-corporate ones (Debian, Arch, Slackware, Kali, TAILS). I find it hard to believe that Lain actually lives in a world where her best option is dicking around with a Windows equivalent.
No.34
>>33>>33We have no idea, maybe the OS had features she wanted?
Maybe she needed binary compatibility, API's locked to the system, we don't really know.
But sometimes in the wired you gotta be pragmatic before you are idealistic. You aren't always going to use open software, and we don't even know if its closed software.
Even if its a RHEL version back when this came out RHEL was a legitimate choice for people.
No.36
Maybe this takes place in a Bad Future where RMS was never born and no champion besides managed to keep the ethos alive.
No.37
>>36SEL should have a sequel where disembodied Lain spreads a memetic virus around the Wired to encourage the use of open sauce
No.40
the creators had a love affair with apple and its related technologies. lain clearly has the capacity to modify her system closed or open. please leave linux soykaf out of this.
No.41
In Lain's world, computers were always about communication first and foremost. Security and software idealism fall far behind that.
The leading OS is the most efficient to adapt communication methods in the most widespread way.
Plus there's hardware support is a necessary priority. Always going for the most powerful, top of the line, latest soykaf. Because communicating directly with brains should take a ton of power. You need that hardware to actually work.
She's already part of the wired and exists everywhere anyways. The OS of one system hardly matters
No.118
Guys, if you were alive in 1998 you'd know that back then, commercial OSes were the soykaf because they got things done. Nobody cared if your pirated your copy of anything, and nobody knew unless you ran around naked in the bus station screaming that you did. It was a brave old world where the engineer POV reigned supreme: if it does its job well, it's good.
Backdoors weren't a concern because all you did was IRC and passively browsing static webpages through http on a 28.8kbps modem, unless you used the campus computers or netcafe stuff.
Don't be a GNUb.
No.119
Copland is a nod to Apple's unreleased Copland version of their OS. There is a lot of references to Apple computers in the show along with NeXT and BeOS. The creators of the show were really into Apple back then.
No.120
The Psyche chip is a proprietary Tachibana creation. Given the fact that they're a secret in the first place, there's no support for it outside of their own software. Not to mention that Lain herself is Tachibana property, it only makes sense.
Besides, source inavailability is only a problem if you can't interpret the raw binaries themselves anyway.
No.121
>120
Agreed. Take everything and reverse engineer and you can be god.
No.133
>>118Super based post. Thank you for reminding these kids lost in their 15yo fantasy hobo law bubble.
No.134
>>31Who cares about muh freedom software if you get that level of control anyway? She could have been able to disable the windows surveillance features for everyone if she so wished
