Comments on: Apple Apologists

By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Dr. Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:45:16 +0000

With or without a “combination”, HypePad seems like a dud to me, but the copyright cartel likes it (DRM, paywalls), so it promotes it a lot.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:18:00 +0000

What, that anyone that can fiddle access to M$ Exchange can go in and nuke the Google services?

The above agreement ties the ability to DDOS an iPad to the fragility of Windows + Exchange. That’s not a winning combination.

By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Dr. Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:15:58 +0000

Google has similar deals involving software patents.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:14:01 +0000

If an iPad is configured with an M$ Exchange account, an joker that can crack administrator level access can initiate a remote wipe command using the Exchange Management Console or the Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web tool. The remote wipe can be initiated using directly using Outlook Web Access, and we all know how secure MSIE is…

http://images.apple.com/ipad/business/pdf/iPad_Security_Overview.pdf

This basically blocks using the iPad at any school…

By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Dr. Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:23:20 +0000

Their business models are very different.

By: your_friend

your_friend — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:00:16 +0000

Google may not be a free software company but they are a pioneering free software user and something for free software advocates to point to with pride. There are dangers in trusting others with your private information but there should be no doubting Google’s technical competence or honesty. Microsoft. Yahoo and other big ISPs all but promise to censor users and sell user data to the highest bidding spammer. As a provider of services, Google has made first rate use of free software. Through Google code and other initiatives, they also sponsor a great deal of free software community.

Through all of Microsoft’s FUD against Google, we should never lose site of the fact that software freedom gives Google and others to do exactly what they are doing. The technical excellence and success of Google are a direct result of the excellent tool set software freedom produces and something most people are not aware of. All of the racket about the dangers of software as a service is spun to give ignorant people the impression that Google is something similar to Microsoft. The two are not remotely comparable.

By: dyfet

dyfet — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:18:07 +0000

I certainly never experienced any problem with commercial acceptability of pure free software licensing. In fact I always believed the two are essential partners and not distant relatives that have to be kept apart such as through dual licensing schemes which remove freedoms for some downstream. But some forget that I was a founder and CTO for Open Source Telecom Corp, where we did rather successfully sell commercial software licensed using the GNU GPL.