-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/11 12:16 , Brad Knowles wrote: > On Feb 18, 2011, at 3:41 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: > >> Could you explain where I said anything like that? On rereading my message, >> it continues to say the opposite — and in fact raises that legal option >> precisely as a warning why *not* to do it. > > Let's go back to the original message I posted, and re-read the entire quote, > as opposed to the stuff you deleted: > >> On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: >> >>> What they're doing does make a lot of sense for the end user, but developers >>> are going to be waving torches and pitchforks at Apple for a while... >> >> Then let them wave torches and pitchforks, and maybe Apple will decide to do >> something to appease them. >> >> But that's Apple's decision to make, regarding how they handle the >> development and content delivery systems for the ecosystem they built and >> continue to maintain, to the tune of operations cost measuring billions of >> dollars per year. >> >> >> If you want to suggest that we should have harsh restrictions on the things >> that multi-billionaires and multi-billion dollar multinational companies can >> do with the ecosystems that they've built and that they continue to spend >> billions of dollars per year to sustain, I can certainly see that argument. > > In those first two paragraphs there, in case you missed it, I'm largely > agreeing with you. This isn't a legal issue, or a restraint of trade issue, > it's a matter of what Apple gets to do with their own ecosystem. However the > developers and content providers for that ecosystem are likewise totally > within their rights to protest how Apple is going about that process, if > Apple does something they don't like.
Then you need to learn how to express yourself clearly; from here, they are at best muddled and at worst a digression. (Which is to say, I couldn't figure out *what* you were attempting to say, apparently because you were knee-jerking.) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] kf8nh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1euu4ACgkQIn7hlCsL25XiYgCeMrE6Do8ZLc53c3GQpFZam9I2 Gx8AoIq+AKXJ47axzwc8tb95fN2PlpKq =RrjU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
