On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Windows is more open from the > > perspective anyone can write and sell it anyway they wish. Today this is > > simply not true of Apple > > True that "open" is such an overloaded term. It basically took Apple > to redefine Microsoft as "less closed", although Microsoft is still > more closed than i.e. Google (which again is less open than Apache). > Open source is a specialization, it sounded like some of the Posse > gang equated Steve Job's talk about openness (transparency, leniency) > with open source, which is a different thing. > > It goes w/out saying... The way Apple treats the developers who make all those apps, sometimes i think of parallels of USSR. You can only buy our Iphones from us. If you dont like the battery - tough, We determine what you can run and what magazines you can include on your Iphone. Our developers cant talk about IOS, Jobs is always right... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
