[dundee] Iphone developer licencse

[Rick Moynihan]

On 9 March 2010 19:55, Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 March 2010 16:43, azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> i was thinking about this the other day.  companies like apple. tend to
>> restrict users via the back door.
>> so that the people actually using the software/devices they produce or
>> produced under there product dont actually see that there being restricted.
>> this is a great example of it.
>> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-program-license-agreement-all
>> NOTE: the comment about iphone and opensource interoperability.
>> What do you all think ?
>> azmodie

Though I can't comment on this issue, I just read a recent post by Tim
Bray (on his move to Google).  It has this quote which some of you
might find interesting:

"The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy,
sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and
who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded
by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the
landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger.

I hate it.

I hate it even though the iPhone hardware and software are great,
because freedom’s not just another word for anything, nor is it an
optional ingredient.

The big thing about the Web isn’t the technology, it’s that it’s the
first-ever platform without a vendor (credit for first pointing this
out goes to Dave Winer). From that follows almost everything that
matters, and it matters a lot now, to a huge number of people. It’s
the only kind of platform I want to help build.

Apple apparently thinks you can have the benefits of the Internet
while at the same time controlling what programs can be run and what
parts of the stack can be accessed and what developers can say to each
other.

I think they’re wrong and see this job as a chance to help prove it."

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google

R.