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Don't you think that it is a stupid name? Why should it be a zero-sum game? Also, I still do eat with spoon, fork and a knife, but I do not call that "war on spork".

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Bad analogy. Your utensils don't prohibit you from eating certain foods because they've chosen not to support them.

Come to think, that's pretty hilarious actually.

Forkenheit 451.

Not arguing with the basic point, but I find it rather humorous that forks essententially do prevent you from eating soup because they've chosen not to (literally) support it. You need to use a different device to consume that media.

Yup, but on the other hand no one calls a fork "general-purpose kitchen utensil".

Not quite, forks are ill suited to the job of consuming many soups. This is more akin to how the Samsung watch is ill suited to host a Super Bowl party. All devices cannot be all things, nor should they be, and this has nothing to do with content licences.

No, you can still eat your soup with a fork. It will work. Nobody will stop you. It will just be very ineffective, and your soup will get cold long before you finish it.

Ok, it's time to stop talking about cutlery, everyone in this thread.

"Your utensils don't prohibit you from eating certain foods because they've chosen not to support them." is going straight into my quotefile.

> Also, I still do eat with spoon, fork and a knife, but I do not call that "war on spork".

Because the barrier to entry to creating your own fork, should Big Cutlery™ decide they want to prevent your access to one, is very low.

I wish I could upvote you twice...once for your point, and again for "Big Cutlery"

You miss the point. If I am some huge player who decides to produce tablets, how does that make me at war with someone else producing computers? Or are those producing utensils at war with Victorinox? So who is actively trying to hurt "general computing" devices? And by this I mean not "producing limited computing devices" but active and deliberate actions against general computing. Or shall we all close our eyes and pretend that many of those general computing devices never saw general computing in their lives? Some are glorified typewriters, some are facebook and email devices, some are game machines. Where does this tunnel vision that anyone working with something with CPU inside should be interested in general computing?

The analogy would be having to pick one of spoon, fork, or knife for eating a whole meal with. Soup and steak. In this dystopia, manufacturing sporks is banned as patent infringement and filing an edge and some tines into your spoon is a DMCA violation.

Don't forget there will have to be some type of law forcing you to purchase a spoon as it is unfair to spoon manufacturers that you don't require a utensil at all to consume soup from an easily lifted bowl.

Maybe force all bowls to be too big and heavy to easily lift?

There is literally a movement to ban pointed kitchen knives in England. https://www.google.com/search?q=pointed+knives+uk+ban

Wait, you mean all my jokes about banning guns just leads to increased stabbings so they'll eventually have to ban knives has come true? Blimey!

There literally isn't.

There's literally one report from 2005 from one A&E (ER) dept that suggested it would be a good idea. Others disagreed.

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