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Re:Developer Joe Hewitt Tears Into Android’s Definition Of “... by Herring on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @01:39AM (#1810153)
Yeah, its really a pleasure seeing all these people (Jobs especially) argue for the GPLv3 and against tivoization. Where were they in 2007..
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Re:Developer Joe Hewitt Tears Into Android’s Definition Of “... by wtallis on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @02:10AM (#1810229)
Well, in 2007, Jobs was just barely able to get one carrier to surrender some control to the handset manufacturer. The iPhone would have been a non-starter if Jobs had been asking for all control over the software to be surrendered to the consumer.
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