Not your sour grapes Victor ... i've seen enough of your posts to know that you are well above that sort of thing. I should have made that clear.
My whole thing is if you dont want freedoms to be limited, then dont buy iphone/ipad products. I choose to buy and iphone and am very happy with the closed environment and it doesn't bother me that i can not install random software because what they have in the app store covers 110% of what i need. I also have a blackberry that operates in exactly the same kind of 'ecosystem' but i do not hear anyone complaining that RIM is stepping on peoples freedoms. And if you look at winmo devices, arent they exactly the same as well? And speaking of android devices, several of my co-workers have android devices, and guess what .... its exactly the same. they are not any more open than the iphone / app store arrangement. You can not install any app that you want. They have taken the tethering apps out of the android app store and in order to install these tethering apps everyone here had to use hacked root firmware to do so. That sounds exactly like jailbreaking to me, does it not? On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Victor van Reijswoud < [email protected]> wrote: > No sour grapes. > > It is the fact that someone else determines what I/you can run on my/your > machine (iPad/iPod/iPhone) and what not. The iPad is supporting a trend > moving towards limitation of freedom. Sorry that I value freedom..... (I am > just surprised to see that people sacrifice freedom so easily). > > Making money, good. Social responsibility and respect for other voices, > better. Making money while creating a free/fair world, best. Just making > money is what Don Corleone did. > > > > > On Apr 2, 2010, at 16:18, sanga collins wrote: > > The only valid excuse not to get it is the version 2 or 3 will be much >> better leaving early adopters feeling like they paid $499 to beta test the >> device. all the other stuff about open source and closed environment are >> just sour grapes. If all that stuff is really that important to you then >> just stay away from apple products. >> From a lot of forums and blogs it seems as if the oss community is mad at >> apple coz they didnt make their product in the spirit of openness and >> collaboration. Well that spirit also make no money and apple is essentially >> in the business of making money. >> >> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Mwirima Byaruhanga <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Christopher Nambale wrote thus on 4/2/10 1:25 PM: >> > Well it should care for their thoughts at the very least, >> >> nope. >> they only care about money >> eb >> _______________________________________________ >> LUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> >> LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. >> --------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sanga M. Collins >> Network Engineering >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Google Voice: (954) 324-1365 >> E- fax: (435) 578 7411 >> _______________________________________________ >> LUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >> >> LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >> >> All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. >> --------------------------------------- >> >> > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > -- Sanga M. Collins Network Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Google Voice: (954) 324-1365 E- fax: (435) 578 7411
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