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:Tomorrow's War: Why FOSS Needs to Change its Views of Apple
Tomorrow's War: Why FOSS Needs to Change its Views of Apple
Sep 3, 2008, 22 :02 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (5516 reads)

(Other stories by Bruce Byfield)

"...the fact that the borrowing is legal in both cases shouldn't mitigate the violation of the community's ethos of sharing. Moreover, as John Sullivan, operations manager for the Free Software Foundation, points out, the cryptographically signed software installation on the iPhone is a form of digital rights management that prevents the modification or sharing of apps that are part of the basic definition of FOSS."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Apple employs FOSS developers and has co ...   Duh, it's because Apple is a good citizen   
Cabal
Sep 4, 2008, 00:03:20
 
You don't take the present for grant ...   Ignore dagger over head?   
Jose_X
Sep 4, 2008, 01:11:50
 
I have no use for Apple, not a fanboi.   ...   Apple is not a threat...   
alan
Sep 4, 2008, 04:37:42
 
I don't see Apple as a threat.  Appl ...   Re: Apple is not a threat...   
Grishnakh
Sep 4, 2008, 05:30:22
 
About 4 years ago, there was an article  ...   Thoughts of the past?   
DDahl
Sep 4, 2008, 09:56:28
 
Apple supports Closed file formats, prot ...   Closed file formatts, etc...   
BD
Sep 4, 2008, 14:50:36
 
Apple supports Closed file formats, prot ...   Re: Closed file formatts, etc...   
Grishnakh
Sep 4, 2008, 19:08:37
 
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