And I remembered a comment I read here: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/04/29/jobs_on_flash/#c_752789
--- For most of the IT industry's relatively short life, programmers and nerds have been its High Priests, acting as gatekeepers and controlling every aspect of your access to their religion. The most blatant exponent of this religion is the Free Software Foundation, which was founded towards the end of the earliest phase of personal computing. This foundation worships the god known as "Open Source"—a god they didn't even invent. "Open Source" is a programmer-centric concept which is only of direct relevance to other programmers. In the early '80s, when the FSF began, most computer users could be assumed to be either programmers, or at least IT-literate. Today, 99% of computer users today *don't* know how to program, and a substantial majority would have trouble recognising the power switch, so a programmer-centric approach to IT is a lot less useful. The FSF has become the closest thing the programming community has to a union, including a strong protectionist stance against anything they see as a threat to the status of programmers within the IT industry. The FSF cannot survive in the world as seen by Apple. Apple's corporate philosophy doesn't see computers as a god-like gift to humanity which must be protected from the unclean masses. Instead, the *user* is placed on the pedestal. His needs *always* come first—even if it means writing applications for Apple's computers is made harder as a result. (For example, it's not uncommon for a major OS X release to break some old APIs to encourage the use of newer, more powerful APIs which offer a richer user experience. Microsoft would be lynched if they tried that.) ... --- On Aug 01, 2011, at 08:07, Victor van Reijswoud wrote: > Amen > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Tim Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: >> <sigh> >> http://www.fsf.org/working-together/ >> </sigh> >> >> On 31 July 2011 10:48, sanga collins <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What freedom exactly are you missing from apples interpretation of the BSD >>> code. I see alot of folks yelling for 'freedom' but with the few areas where >>> the freedom is granted they are not doing anything useful at all >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Tim Schofield <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Well there is a major difference between the way Apple uses the BSD >>>> licensed code and the way Google does. Apple have taken BSD licensed >>>> code, made changes and then released it as proprietary code, whereas >>>> Google has taken it, made changes and then released it as BSD licensed >>>> code. Apple have taken away our freedom while Google retains it. >>>> >>>> Having said this I am not a fan of permissive licensing. I would never >>>> contribute any code to a project that had such a license. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Tim >>>> >>>> On 31 July 2011 07:33, joachim Gwoke <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Schofield does mention use of BSD code and license on android. Now from >>>>> what we see apple has always taken this route and made a lot of money from >>>>> it. Can the droid people do the same? Seems to me that extremely >>>>> permissive >>>>> licensing like that of the bsd people keeps them in the shadows. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> regards >>>>> Joachim >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug >>>>> >>>>> Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>>>> Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >>>>> To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug >>>>> >>>>> The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: >>>>> http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >>>>> >>>>> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >>>>> attachments if any). 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