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Re:Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as na... by tlrobinson on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @07:16PM (#1013122)
"open source, but close-licensed" is a contradiction. By no definition I know of is that considered "open source".
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Re:Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as na... by philwelch on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @07:23PM (#1013126)
You're splitting hairs. I don't see any value to semantic argument here. The point is, the source code can be gotten, but it's not licensed so that others can use it.
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Re:Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as na... by jbellis on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @08:56PM (#1013230)
"open source" has a specific meaning, not just "you can read the source:" http://www.opensource.org/
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Re:Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as na... by philwelch on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @09:18PM (#1013258)
Yes, that's arguably true. That's also a completely boring semantic argument that completely misses what the guy was trying to express.
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Re:Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as na... by blasdel on Thursday December 24, 2009 @03:08AM (#1013565)
The usual nomenclature for this sort of thing is "shared source"
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