QA with Matt Asay: How Linux is Beating Apple and Much More (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

QA with Matt Asay: How Linux is Beating Apple and Much More (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 17, 2010 6:35 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: QA with Matt Asay: How Linux is Beating Apple and Much More (Linux.com) by trasz
Parent article: QA with Matt Asay: How Linux is Beating Apple and Much More (Linux.com)

>Please go to the URL you posted (EFF's expose of the iPhone developer's agreement). Search for words "controversy", "sex", and "freedom". Notice that even EFF doesn't claim that the agreement says anything about that.

What, seriously? You're trying to refute the argument by scanning for specific words, rather than reading for meaning?

There needs to be a new fallacy name for this thing: argumentum ad regexum, perhaps.

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Right. Was is peace, Freedom is slavery and Ignorance is strength

Posted Mar 17, 2010 8:55 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Ok. Show me where it says anything that is even remotely related to controversy, sex or freedom.

It's kinda pointless to discuss anything with you.

1. Ignorance is strength: if something is not written directly in EULA it does not exist. Acts of Big Brother^W^W Steve Jobs^W^W Party ^W^W Apple are irrelevant.

2. War is peace: when Big Browser^W^W Steve Jobs says it's bad idea to allow Flash or Opera on the device it's not a war, it's peaceful coexistence of Oceania and Eurasia.

3. Freedom is slavery. When you get approval and later your program is removed because it contains sex it's freedom. Steve Jobs^W^W Big Brother imposes antisexualism so of course such programs must be removed. Actually they were never admitted - check archives of Minitrue if in doubt!

It's scary to talk with citizen of Oceania like you - they can always accept any fact and fit in their worldview where Steve Jobs ^W^W Big Brother is always right and Party ^W Apple can do no wrong.

P.S. Oh and I like the infamous clip too. They did one thing wrong, of course: David Graham played Big Brother, not Steve Jobs. But I must admit that David Graham looks much better in this role on TV... Steve Jobs plays it much better in real life.

Right. Was is peace, Freedom is slavery and Ignorance is strength

Posted Mar 17, 2010 13:21 UTC (Wed) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link]

That's because you're not paying attention. I was replying to a comment by dskoll, who said that the EFF FUD was not, in fact, a FUD, and that I should go read the developers agreement. I replied that the agreement doesn't say anything that would back the claims.

I's hard to argue with Party member, but I'll try...

Posted Mar 17, 2010 14:22 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I replied that the agreement doesn't say anything that would back the claims.

Ignorance is strength, right? Agreements says quite straight: "You understand and agree that Apple may cease distribution of Your Licensed Application(s) and/or Licensed Application Information or revoke the digital certificate of any of Your Applications at any time". Apple is Judge, Jury & Executioner, but obviously it's not a shot against freedom because freedom is slavery, after all.

And as for sex, yes, it's not written in agreement - it does not need to be: Apple can do anything it wants and developer is absolutely powerless so why write dirty words in the agreement?

Right. Was is peace, Freedom is slavery and Ignorance is strength

Posted Mar 17, 2010 15:01 UTC (Wed) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]

Such a feeble refutation of that comment, indeed. Even if one decides to take the original opinion ("Apple's vision") as a black-and-white guide to the here-and-now, it doesn't take much effort to find sections in the Apple agreement to back that up.

For example, 3.3.14 talks about "content or materials... that in Apple's reasonable judgment may be... considered pornographic, or defamatory" - that's talking about "sex" and "controversy", by the way.

Now, as a lot of the apologists for Apple might say (and have done in comments on the referenced article), this just applies to Apple's own store, which sounds like you can take your ball away and play elsewhere. Except that to do so requires you to jailbreak your phone and encourage others to do so, something which Apple regards as a DMCA violation. That, including a section (3.2e) in the developer agreement, pointed out in what you all too readily regard as "FUD" (a feeble debating tool when used as often as you have done) from the EFF, is a direct influence on "freedom".

Who isn't paying attention again?