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...

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