iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[Lawrence Sica]

On Jul 3, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

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> On 4 juil. 07, at 00:20, David P. Henderson wrote:
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>> On 03 Jul 2007, at 10:29, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> Figure it out yourself...
>

Quick question.  But Kerebos is as much a spec as a piece of  
software.  Not sure how this applies here.  When you are dealing with  
standards and open specifications licenses become sort of moot.  The  
HTML standard is a great example of this.

--Larry