On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:02 AM, kenneth marken <<a href="mailto:k-marken@online.no">k-marken@online.no</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Saturday 12 July 2008 06:00:48 Dylan Semler wrote:<br>
> I wouldn't want to promote that article too much. It's written like it's<br>
> complete FUD: it makes outrageous claims and doesn't cite any sources. I<br>
> myself have a hard time believing two of the five points:<br>
><br>
> * "iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to<br>
> Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can't be on<br>
> everyone's phones." I can believe that Apple has authority over some<br>
> central official repository of software, but do they really prevent people<br>
> from distributing software independently? If there is no way to get<br>
> software on the iPhone without going through Apple, how does anyone test<br>
> their applications before releasing them? If there is a way to distribute<br>
> software indepentent of Apple, do iPhones check the liscense of the app and<br>
> "completely block free software"?<br>
><br>
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</div>this may be informative:<br>
<a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/131752" target="_blank">http://www.linux.com/feature/131752</a><br>
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</blockquote><div><br>Wow, thanks for the link, that explains everything. I guess the FSF article is more accurate than I thought. <br><br>-- <br></div></div>Dylan<br><br>Type faster. Use Dvorak:<br><a href="http://dvzine.org">http://dvzine.org</a>