Re:EFF on Apple's iPhone Developer Program Agreement
by sokoloff on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @02:58PM
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The EFF is about electronic freedom. The iPhone takes away the freedom of users and developers.
From my perspective, users and developers have MORE freedom now with the advent of the iPhone than they had before it was introduced.
Before it was introduced, you had NO FREEDOM at all to develop, sell or use iPhone apps. Now, you have freedom to develop them under certain conditions that are not as free as possible in an EFF-idealized world, but to say that the introduction of the iPhone strictly takes away freedom I think is wrong.
From my perspective, users and developers have MORE freedom now with the advent of the iPhone than they had before it was introduced.
Before it was introduced, you had NO FREEDOM at all to develop, sell or use iPhone apps. Now, you have freedom to develop them under certain conditions that are not as free as possible in an EFF-idealized world, but to say that the introduction of the iPhone strictly takes away freedom I think is wrong.