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EFF: Apple seeking to patent spywareEFF: Apple seeking to patent spywarePosted Aug 24, 2010 13:53 UTC (Tue) by marduk (subscriber, #3831)Parent article: EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware
This sounds like a joke. Is this real? Sounds like some major PR fail. Hasn't Apple had enough of that as of late. Are they taking the "even bad publicity is good" angle?
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Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Aug 24, 2010 14:43 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] Apple has shown multiple times that it doesn't care what anyone thinks about its disgusting behaviour (not even its customers.) Apple arrogantly (and alas, probably correctly) believes that its core constituency is zealous enough and stupid enough to forgive Apple for almost anything. There's no fanboi like a Mac fanboi, so Apple knows it can run roughshod over its customers with impunity. Unfortunately, until Apple-purchasing sheep wake up and vote with their wallets, Apple will continue to get away with evil stunts like the one described in the patent. I'm really disappointed every time I go to a FOSS event and see the hordes of Mac laptops. People just don't seem to get it.
Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Aug 24, 2010 17:42 UTC (Tue) by hitmark (guest, #34609) [Link]
convenience trumps ideology.
Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Aug 24, 2010 18:06 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] laziness trumps thinking.
Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Aug 25, 2010 10:22 UTC (Wed) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]
marketing trumps awareness
Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Aug 26, 2010 2:07 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]
Hearts trump spades.
Unless this is spades.
Donald Trumps...
umm....
Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Sep 8, 2010 9:00 UTC (Wed) by jtc (subscriber, #6246) [Link]
"Hearts trump spades.
Unless this is spades. Donald Trumps... umm...."
or:
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
or - whatever...
Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Aug 24, 2010 19:28 UTC (Tue) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]
> I'm really disappointed every time I go to a FOSS event and see the hordes of Mac laptops. People just don't seem to get it.
Don't they buy it for hardware only?
Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Aug 24, 2010 22:47 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] I see many FOSS attendees running Mac OS X.
Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Aug 24, 2010 23:18 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
"I'm really disappointed every time I go to a FOSS event and see the hordes of Mac laptops. People just don't seem to get it."
To be fair, Mac laptops are pretty open - they run on an OpenSource kernel. Only the GUI part is closed.
Apple, n: 1. Arrogance Personified. 2. Object of cult-like worship. Posted Aug 25, 2010 0:38 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] To be fair, Mac laptops are pretty open - they run on an OpenSource kernel. Only the GUI part is closed. You cannot run any Mac OS X applications on only the open-source bits, so the kernel is a curiosity, nothing more. But what upsets me is that every Mac laptop means more money for Apple, and that's a crying shame. Apple is no more deserving of FOSS advocates' money than Microsoft (maybe even less so.)
There is more than one cult here. Posted Aug 25, 2010 16:19 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]
You can be a FOSS advocate without that being the only thing in the world that's important to you. Any purchase is going to be a balancing of many concerns, from environmental impact to how the physical design makes you feel about the device. FOSS hygiene is just another input to the equation.
Unless, of course, you've chosen the FOSS cult instead of the Apple cult. Most of us prefer to avoid cults.
There is more than one cult here. Posted Aug 25, 2010 17:49 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] You can be a FOSS advocate without that being the only thing in the world that's important to you. Yes, of course. However, it's my opinion that Apple has swung so far to the dark side that it's a contradiction to claim to be a FOSS advocate and to purchase Apple products. Unless, of course, you've chosen the FOSS cult instead of the Apple cult. Most of us prefer to avoid cults. Freedom is not a cult.
There is more than one cult here. Posted Aug 25, 2010 18:52 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]
Freedom cannot be a cult; worship of freedom can.
There is more than one cult here. Posted Aug 25, 2010 21:52 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] Are you attempting to discuss an issue, or see who can come up with cuter sound bites? :) Apple has increasingly become the antithesis of everything FOSS stands for. To call yourself a FOSS advocate while sending money Apple's way is akin to a Vegan subsidizing the local beef marketing board.
There is more than one cult here. Posted Aug 25, 2010 22:37 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]
Sorry, my line was meant to be a nice line, but it really was in response to yours.
There is only a disconnect if one views FOSS, or veganism, as a philosophy or ethic. I have a friend who is a vegan and has been for years, but it's not a philosophical choice - he just prefers it. He doesn't feel guilty if he sometimes accidentally eats meat, he just prefers not to.
I support FOSS as a "Good Thing" and contribute money to some FOSS-related activities; I run a FOSS OS on one of my laptops. I think it's a good way to develop software. It is not, however, so central to me that I guide my life by its principles or feel guilty when I don't observe them. I have no moral/ethical objection to proprietary software or hardware, though there are some applications where I would insist on going FOSS.
So, I consider myself an advocate of FOSS while conceding that there are others who are much more fervent about it.
There is more than one cult here. Posted Aug 25, 2010 20:43 UTC (Wed) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
> Yes, of course. However, it's my opinion that Apple has swung so far to the dark side that it's a contradiction to claim to be a FOSS advocate and to purchase Apple products.
Many people still have mac laptops from before Apple swung so far over to the dark side. Back when they were just a company which created some closed source software and some open source software.
When did Apple go rotten? Posted Aug 25, 2010 21:55 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] Interesting. When do you reckon Apple swung over to the dark side? I think it was when the iPhone came out, which would have been in early 2007. (Actually, they'd been moving darkward for some time before that, but the iPhone developer rules made it starkly clear.) I see many Mac notebooks at FOSS conferences that look younger than 3.5 years old.
When did Apple go rotten? Posted Aug 26, 2010 0:26 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
I'd say somewhere around mid-2008, when iPhone 3G / OS 2.0 came out, with the restrictive rules. Remember: the original iPhone didn't allow additional apps *at all* beyond what it shipped with. Everyone was expected to write webapps, which of course don't have restrictions on what they do.
And even then, it was somewhat possible to sort of justify it to yourself based on "it's just a phone, whatever, and you know, carriers are evil and stuff they had to, SRSLY!!". But now they've expanded the death grip onto a tablet device (and IMO likely will try to expand it further), I think it's a lot harder to make such a justification.
When did Apple go rotten? Posted Aug 28, 2010 2:06 UTC (Sat) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148) [Link]
How about iPod/iTunes and their "Fairplay" DRM rubbish.
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