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FSF Rattles Tivo Saber At Apple

Posted by kdawson on from the interesting-to-try-and-prove-that dept.

Ohreally_factor takes us back to Friday when both the iPhone and the GPLv3 were released. "This article at Tectonic suggests that Apple's iPhone might run afoul of the GPL. Peter Brown, executive director of the FSF is quoted as saying: 'Today, Steve Jobs and Apple release a product crippled with proprietary software and digital restrictions: crippled, because a device that isn't under the control of its owner works against the interests of its owner. We know that Apple has built its operating system, OS X, and its web browser Safari, using GPL-covered work — it will be interesting to see to what extent the iPhone uses GPLed software.' Might there really be GPLed code in the iPhone? It's well known that OS X built on BSD, which of course uses the BSD license. Webkit is based on KHTML which uses the LGPL."

2 of 571 comments (clear)

  1. Get the popcorn! by xtracto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, two of the most defended groups featured together for a fight... it will be nice to read all the ultra-zealotry comments on slashdot hahah.

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    Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
  2. Re:Grandstanding. by McDutchie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You replied to someone with the word 'MacFanboy' in his handle Do you really expect any logical arguements to work?

    No, I was replying to jcr's message that started this thread.

    Even if it had been 'MacFanboy', I don't see Slashdot nicknames with probable humorous intentions as a reason not to take their comments seriously.