iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[David P. Henderson]

On 03 Jul 2007, at 10:29, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

> Think Kerberos and the way it has been modified by Microsoft to  
> ruin the efforts of the community to have a vendor neutral protocol.
>
> Was it added value ? No, it was just distorting the original so  
> that nobody would use it anymore. Was that innovation ? No, it was  
> stealing, plain and simple.
>
> Obviously the Kerberos developers with their MIT license had not  
> considered the consequences of their move...

How exactly would the GPL have stopped MS from doing this to  
Kerberos. There have been many complaints from the KHTML community  
that Apple did exactly this when it adopted KHTML for use in Web Kit.  
And there was absolutely nothing the KHTML creators could do to stop  
Apple since it followed the letter of the license.

All code bases under open source licenses can be readily abused  
intentionally or not without violating the terms of the license.

Continuing to use phrases like "steal," "stealing," and "theft" with  
regard to licenses which approximate public domain make you sound  
like a marxist chanting, "property is theft."

Dave
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