[ale] OT: Apple developer agreement makes Microsoft look modest

[Geoffrey]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> Hate is such a _strong_ word. I experience an uncontrollable urge to 
> participate in projectile vomiting is a better term to describe my feelings.
> 
> OK. That and a fair amount of smugness as I hear of the problems daily 
> M$ lusers have. The Mac fanboys do provide a comedic background to the 
> M$ luser whining. As they swoon like teenage girls in the presence of 
> their hearthrob crush idol of the moment, the mindless drone chant in 
> unison "Yes, Steve. I'll buy an iPad too even though I can't ever tether 
> it to my iPhone."
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/08/no_ipad_tethering/

Last I checked, you can't tether a computer to an iPhone either even 
though the support is there.  It's not Apple, but AT&T who won't support 
it, because, as I understand it, they don't think their network would 
support the volume.

> 
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com 
> <mailto:questy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Ok, we get it.  you hate both Apple *and* Microsoft.
> 
>     ...
> 
> 
>     On Mar 8, 2010, at 11:11 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
>>     and that mentality is why I don't use apple software or hardware
>>     when I can find _any_ other way to solve what I'm working on.
>>
>>     It basically says "Steve Jobs got rich as shit and his highness
>>     has royally decreed you shall not compete with him in any way".
>>
>>     On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Jim Philips
>>     <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com <mailto:briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         The terms of this are absolutely insane. Read on:
>>
>>         "You will not, through use of the Apple Software, services or
>>         otherwise create any Application or other program that would
>>         disable, hack, or otherwise interfere with the Security
>>         Solution, or any security, digital signing, digital rights
>>         management, verification or authentication mechanisms
>>         implemented in or by the iPhone operating system software,
>>         iPod Touch operating system software, this Apple Software, any
>>         services or other Apple software or technology, or enable
>>         others to do so."
>>
>>         http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-program-license-agreement-all
>>
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