On 4/1/2016 9:48 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 4/1/2016 9:11 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> Until the corporation patents a proprietary modification of the Open >> Source software. > > You know, if the full iOS source code were GPLv3 then the FBI would not > have needed Apple to provide a custom OS to help them extract the data > from Farook's iPhone. The FBI would be able to build it themselves. > > Oh, yes. I just went there. >
The problem the FBI had even if they modified the OS themselves was signing it as an official update so that the phone would accept it... _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
