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Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Tom Yager takes a closer look at Apple's iPhone SDK confidentiality agreement, which restricts developers from discussing the SDK or exchanging ideas with others, thereby leaving no room for forums, newsgroups, open source projects, tutorials, magazine articles, users' groups, or books. But because anyone is free to obtain the iPhone SDK by signing up for it, Apple is essentially branding publicly available information as confidential. This 'puzzling contradiction' is the 'antithesis of the developer-friendly Apple Developer Connection' on which the iPhone SDK program is based, Yager contends. 'You'll see arguments from armchair legal analysts that the iPhone developer Agreements won't stand up in court — but those analysts certainly won't stand up in court on your behalf.' Anyone planning to launch an iPhone forum or open source project should have 'a lawyer draft your request for exemption, and make sure that the Apple staffer granting it personally commits to status as authorized to approve exceptions to the iPhone Registered Developer and iPhone SDK Agreements,' Yager warns."
This forum is in contempt of the NDA.
With a mad dictator like steve jobs at the helm, what more would you expect?
He'll demand that people conform to his world view, and demand that the people working for him force their customers to conform to his world view.
Now, he's demanding that his workers force his customers to force THEIR customers to conform...
*phew*... I'm so glad I don't work for / with / against / near Apple. I get winded just thinking about them!
A secret survey conducted by the Rand Corporation in the 1970s confirmed that any person attracted to white, plastic machines completely without sharp edges is an utter homosexual, subconsciously wishing to insert them into his rectum.
Wow. I gotta watch Wall-E again...
...you don't talk about Apple SDK Developers club.
The only explanation I can see for Apple's recent surge in popularity is their marketing, which is absolutely top notch.
Really? That's the only explanation?
And therefore violates the terms of the iPhone SDK EULA! Which is what makes it so entirely silly.
The EULA for Safari for windows also forbids the installing of safari on windows. Again silly. Apple needs to become about 638% less litigious. Yes, I quantified it, wana fight about it?
Indeed. Remarkable insightful for someone who has "Fanboy" in his username. :-)
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