As you mentioned; if it serves(the device) it's purpose, then great. But to waste time breaking stuff just to make it do the little extra you can pull out of it. Encourage other platforms that welcome open'ness'...
L8tr Enviado desde mi oficina móvil BlackBerry® de Telcel -----Original Message----- From: Vrej Melkonian <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:03:07 To: Montreal Linux Users Group<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] OT Re: i-pad, i-phone, i this that and the other i-thing. --- On Sat, 1/30/10, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] OT Re: i-pad, i-phone, i this that and the other i-thing. > To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> > Received: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 2:45 PM > >> I wouldn't draw the same > parallel. Repo's make common software > >> acquisition EASY... bu t all of these distro's > give you the complete > >> toolset to install whatever you want from wherever > you want. That's > >> what compiling is for :) > > Just like you can do with a jailbroken iphone, you > have the option. > > Oh, so the iPhone is OK because the Apple guys were > sufficiently > incompetent in locking down their system? > [ And, yes, I think it's (lucky) incompetence on their > part. I should > know: I design techniques to make such holes impossible > :-(. ] > > If you compare the "lockdown-ness" of early iPods to the > most recent > ones, you'll see that Apple is learning and it's becoming > every time > much more difficult to find a way to jailbreak their > devices. I'm glad > it's hard actually, because then people really get to > experience what it > means for a device to be locked down (just like I like it > when people > get sued for illegally copying software, because it reminds > people that > those software are not free). > > In a sense, because who spend time trying to jailbreak such > hardware are > actually working against the interest of Free Software: > they make it > possible for some users of Free Software to buy such > machines (and hence > sponsor DRM). I.e. they make the pain of DRM > bearable, which makes it > that much less likely that people will reject DRM > altogether. > > > Stefan Is this DRM talk about people who would be buying movies and music from the App store? Too bad for them. The real solution is to get your movies and music from elsewhere and just transfer the file to Mr IPod and Mr IPod will play them just fine. It is a little insane to buy an IPod just to jailbreak it. There are other devices that can do more than the IPod : more memory, more freedom to install what you want, install FLASH , develop apps on Windows (Apple's IPhone/IPod SDK only runs on Macs). Normally, when a company comes up with a nice product, others jump in and make clones and clones win the market. Apple has been lucky so far. __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
