Is Apple worse for open source software than Microsoft?

At the end of the day it is the users choice to get the device - we have the choice to go apple (and all it stand for / controls) or M$ or Android or whichever..... You buy the device, you end up buying its standards / ideals, etc.
 
What a crud article. Things are done for a reason - Apple has valid reasons for their approach - and it is this approach, that has led me to have utmost faith in their products.
No sir, nothing you say will change my opinion with Apple - I have spent 20 years with Microsoft and PC's, and only in the past 4 years, have I realized that there is something way, way way better. Apple, and OSX.

No looking back, Apple all the way now
 
Wow this article has nothing to do with open source software whatsoever! What about Webkit, which Apple started, it's one of the greatest open-source projects around.

Apple doesn't include Adobe Flash on the iPhone. I am so sick of hearing this, it's because Flash is a dog on ARM processors! What phone can run Flash currently? None! And I'm not talking about that Flash Lite crap.

Apple's restrictive policies on the App store are in the interest of security, compatibility and ease of use. So far it's been a huge success, by far the best platform to develop for commercially.
 
The whole fun in technology for me is to get it to do as much as I possibly can, milk everything for all it's unintended uses, eg back when the Nokia N70 came out, I played GBA and SNES games on it. The thing with Apple is it doesn't allow anyone to innovate it's products and as the article says it's hampering innovation.
 
150 000 Apps. 97.5% of all mobile app sales. Yeah it's been a huge failure with no innovation :confused:
 
HAhaahahaahaha. I love the way you attack apple. Bravo. Here is the rest of what Bray had to say, before you are all skewed into thinking the co-developer of XML despises Apple completely.

“Apple apparently thinks you can have the benefits of the Internet while at the same time controlling what programs can be run and what parts of the stack can be accessed and what developers can say to each other,” he said,.

Having said all that, he said that Apple builds some great open platforms. He said he'd been a happy buyer of its computing systems for some years now and, despite his current irritation, will probably go on using them.

He said that the strength of his convictions was such that he changed his job to fight the firm but would remain a loyal Apple customer and support Steve Jobs with his cash.

Sheesh, with convictions like that, you are really going to change the world.
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Now I am not a big fan of their lock downs, and really feel they can be doing way more for open-source, but they are no where near as bad as microsoft.
 
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Synaesthesia said:
150 000 Apps. 97.5% of all mobile app sales. Yeah it's been a huge failure with no innovation :confused:
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Exactly, made a new platform for developer to deliver to wide audiences, so successfully Google out-right copied them with the android market place. Say what you want about them closing this and closing that, iphone developers are laughing at you all the way to the bank.
 
"A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics"
Coincidently Radiohead made that song on a mac.
 
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Business is there for money, giving shyte to people for free makes no business sense.

So microsoft apple and whoever else we can think to blame are there to make money not help people create free stuff. I know it is hard to believe companies want to make money but that is life.
 
I sincerely hope the author of this article wasn't paid by mybroadband to write this stuff.
 
If a closed source product is good enough, people will use it and pay for it... don't say the iPhone kills innovation, it sparked almost a complete rebirth of the smartphone market...
 
Synaesthesia said:
Wow this article has nothing to do with open source software whatsoever! What about Webkit, which Apple started, it's one of the greatest open-source projects around.
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Apple didn't start webkit. It forked Khtml and the result was Webkit. Under Khtml's license it was forced to opensource webkit. The same happened with BSD but it's license doesn't require Apple to opensource any changes it made to BSD, so they didn't.
 
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