Ps the only reason i am not buying the ipad is because i cant afford it :) On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:24 AM, sanga collins <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > -- Sanga M. Collins Network Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Google Voice: (954) 324-1365 E- fax: (435) 578 7411
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