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Apple Squashes the iPhone SDK NDA: What’s the OSS Impact?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 2, 2008

[ Thanks to Sakshi
Garg
for this link. ]

“In the coming war between Linux phones based on LiMo’s
platform, Android phones such as the T-Mobile G1, and the iPhone,
the key to victory is going to be to snag the most good developers
delivering the best applications. Apple’s NDA on its SDK had been
restricting many types of development efforts. In fact, just a few
days ago a publisher stopped the publication of a book on
developing for the iPhone specifically because of the
NDA.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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