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Question about iOS 5

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Gucci

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May 17, 2011
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Would it be possible for Apple to release the source code of iOS 5?


this would greatly bennefit them.
 
Apple is a greedy company like Micro$oft. They just want your money.


Google on the other hands is sharing their code. Propietary software should be illegal, every OS should be available for free for everyone.

Shared code, shared efforts, shared principles. No cost.

vs

Greedy big corporation pocketing all the money, no sharing, no principles high cost.
 
Gucci said:
Apple is a greedy company like Micro$oft. They just want your money.


Google on the other hands is sharing their code. Propietary software should be illegal, every OS should be available for free for everyone.

Shared code, shared efforts, shared principles. No cost.

vs

Greedy big corporation pocketing all the money, no sharing, no principles high cost.
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Ah to be young an naïve again. There is absolutely no evidence to support what you claim. Google spend a fortune on developing Android: they have loads of directly employed developers writing it along with the project management, SQM people etc support structures that go with large scale commercial development. So there is a large cost.

I would also note that Google don't release a huge amount of their software in source form. Most obviously there is no available source code for Android Honeycomb. They have also never released the code for their core assets: their search engine, their built from the ground up custom distributed file system or their custom built from the ground up distributed computing platform.

As for being illegal? Why? If the benefits were as huge and obvious as you state (with no proof) every corporation would go open source without the legal stick requiring it. It's up to the copywrite holder if they want to go open source or not. In the past I have open sourced some of my code. Mostly now I do not. Why should I be forced to?
 
Gucci said:
Google on the other hands is sharing their code.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

No. Really, tell us another one. That was pretty funny.

Gucci said:
Propietary software should be illegal, every OS should be available for free for everyone.
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They exist. There are plenty of them out there. So use one of those. Go download some form of Linux and have fun. What are you complaining about?
 
Why should Apple have to share their Source Code, they developed it. They don't have to give it to anyone.

It's not being evil.
 
Gucci said:
Apple is a greedy company like Micro$oft. They just want your money.


Google on the other hands is sharing their code. Propietary software should be illegal, every OS should be available for free for everyone.
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Google isn't sharing their important code. For instance Google hasn't released any source code for their cash cow, the search engine. Also Google apps aren't open sourced either. In fact you have to be under Google's strict control just to have those apps on your device as it was revealed during the ongoing Skyhook lawsuit.

Google is just another greedy corporate, just like Apple and MS, who is in it to make money. The only difference is that they somehow duped some people to think they aren't greedy, and their business model calls on opening up every information that isn't Google's core business so that Google can aggregate all the data in the world and sell ads on them.

The Marco Arment blog article summed it nicely:

http://www.marco.org/2011/04/09/facebooks-open-compute-project

“opening” something is almost always an effort to commoditize it, leveling the playing field as much as possible and marginalizing competitive advantages that others might have had.

It’s usually in a business’ best interests to commoditize its complements. Microsoft commoditized PC hardware because its software needed a home. Companies that contribute heavily to open-source, such as modern-day IBM, commoditize software because they sell consulting and support services. Google commoditizes applications, platforms, and web technologies because it needs places to put its ads and people to see them. (Google also tries to commoditize anything required to get online: web browsers, DNS, and in some cases, even internet connectivity.) Apple commoditizes apps to make iPhones and iPads more attractive (and exclusive).

Nobody “opens” the parts of their business that make them money, maintain barriers to competitive entry, or otherwise provide significant competitive advantages. That’s why Android’s basic infrastructure is “open”, but all of Google’s important applications and services for it aren’t — Google doesn’t care about the platform and doesn’t want it to matter. Google’s effectively asserting that the basic parts of a modern OS — the parts that are open in Android — are all good enough, relatively similar, and no longer competitively meaningful. Nobody’s going to steal marketshare from Google by making a better kernel or windowing API on their competing smartphone platform, regardless of whether they borrowed any of Android’s “open” components or ideas derived from them. But Google’s applications and services are locked down, because those are vulnerable to competition, do provide competitive advantages, and are nowhere near being commoditized.
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Gucci said:
Apple is a greedy company like Micro$oft. They just want your money.


Google on the other hands is sharing their code. Propietary software should be illegal, every OS should be available for free for everyone.

Shared code, shared efforts, shared principles. No cost.

vs

Greedy big corporation pocketing all the money, no sharing, no principles high cost.
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Gucci, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
 
lsvtecjohn3 said:
Gucci, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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this reply just made my day, I thank you.
 
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