Freetard Follies

April 16th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

This tick­les me.  The maroons at Linux​.com felt com­pelled to write an in-depth arti­cle about how the iPhone devel­oper pro­gram is not com­pat­i­ble with “Free Software.”  Ignoring the biggest flaw in their arti­cle, which is assum­ing that the NDA restric­tions cur­rently being imposed on the devel­op­ers in the beta pro­gram will also apply to devel­op­ers once the pro­gram is out of beta, is any­one actu­ally sur­prised that the iPhone Developer pro­gram doesn’t play well with the GPL?  And more impor­tantly, does any­one other than free­tards give a rat’s ass.  You want to develop “free” soft­ware for a phone, go develop for OpenMoko.  I’m sure the neck-beards will sing your praises.

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  • VMR

    Incompatible with the GPL: maybe. Incompatible with free or open source? Only if your def­i­n­i­tion of free or open source is “may never be used by any­one with a job ever”. The num­ber of open source licenses other than GPL men­tioned in the arti­cle is zero. A num­ber of com­menters men­tioned some, though, mostly to con­trast them favor­ably with GPL, and to spec­u­late that the piece was intended as propaganda.

  • VMR

    Incompatible with the GPL: maybe. Incompatible with free or open source? Only if your def­i­n­i­tion of free or open source is “may never be used by any­one with a job ever”. The num­ber of open source licenses other than GPL men­tioned in the arti­cle is zero. A num­ber of com­menters men­tioned some, though, mostly to con­trast them favor­ably with GPL, and to spec­u­late that the piece was intended as propaganda.