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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// Apr 18, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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.
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