Reclamação de Dave Thomas quanto aos termos e condições do IPhone SDK

http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/07/if-you-work-for.html

We love Apple stuff. Andy and I both run Macs as our main machines (at last count, I have 8 Macs in my home). When the App Store was announced, we were keen to spread the word. We have a new book on iPhone software development. We have a brand new section in Bill Dudney’s Core Animation book. And Mike Clark has a set of screencasts on how to write code for the little fella.

And we can’t show you any of them.

Why? Because in order to get the iPhone SDK, you have to agree to the terms and conditions?you know, that standard box of legalese that you skip over before pressing I AGREE. Except, in this case, the legalese has some unfortunate consequences.
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So, to write a book about the iPhone SDK, you have to download it. In order to download it, you have to accept the agreement. And the agreement says that the download will contain confidential information that you can’t pass on to third parties. That makes it hard to publish the book. And, if that wasn’t enough, it also appears that you can’t even use the word “iPhone” (for example, in a book title).

Eu admiro a Apple, admiro seus produtos, admiro seu gestor…
Mas na minha humilde opinião(e acho que não só minha)…ela está na contramão do mundo com essa “política fechada”.

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cmoscoso 18 de jul. de 2008

http://lifehacker.com/398658/why-youre-better-off-avoiding-the-iphone

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