Linked by Nescio on Mon 9th Mar 2009 08:05 UTC
Numerous irrelevant issues and feelings about them are ventilated in comments on the case. However, there are only two important issues. One is what the law is, the other is what we think the law should be.
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Whether the license grants or removes rights is completely immaterial, the concept is respecting the license. If you feel that you have a right to infringe on Apple license, regardless of the reason, then you should have no qualms about someone else infringing on the GPL, regardless of the reason.
Actually, if the Apple license falls under copyright misuse, then Apple is prevented from enforcing it until they take care of the misuse.
Finally, you're going to have to do a lot more than simply state that Apple's EULA in some way harms consumers. I'm afraid that your opinion carries no weight with me or many other people on this planet. Such comments sound more like hyperbole attempting to appeal to fear than a rational, coherent argument.
Limited monopolies, enforced through the abuse of copyright, can do nothing but harm the market. Competition is known to improve the market, not allowing it hurts the market.
You tell me, how does Apple EULA _help_ consumers? By limiting their choice of hardware to one?
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"Whether the license grants or removes rights is completely immaterial, the concept is respecting the license. If you feel that you have a right to infringe on Apple license, regardless of the reason, then you should have no qualms about someone else infringing on the GPL, regardless of the reason.
Actually, if the Apple license falls under copyright misuse, then Apple is prevented from enforcing it until they take care of the misuse. "
And if the sun goes supernova tomorrow then we're all dead. Problem is, the chances of either happening are essentially zero. Or, you can actually give a coherant argument as to why there is even a hair's breadth chance of Apple's license falling into the category of copyright misuse when there is already court precedent on these very issues?
"Finally, you're going to have to do a lot more than simply state that Apple's EULA in some way harms consumers. I'm afraid that your opinion carries no weight with me or many other people on this planet. Such comments sound more like hyperbole attempting to appeal to fear than a rational, coherent argument.
Limited monopolies, enforced through the abuse of copyright, can do nothing but harm the market. Competition is known to improve the market, not allowing it hurts the market.
You tell me, how does Apple EULA _help_ consumers? By limiting their choice of hardware to one? "
I'm afraid you've lost me. How is their hardware choice limited to one? Did every other hardware manufacturer suddenly go out of business? Oh, wait, you mean every manufacturer who includes OS X. Well, yes, there is only one of those. As there was only one manufacturer of Palm OS devices. For all intents and purposes there is only one manufacturer of Tivo products. Only one manufacturer of Playstations, Xboxes, Wiis. I guess we better start forcing Microsoft and Sony to start cross licensing their consoles so there is some competition.
So here's some advice if you decide to respond. First, I don't need to prove that their EULA helps consumers since I never made that assertion. The lack of harm does not indicate the creation of help. Second, you need to dissassociate with this idea that just because you want something in a different packaging the manufacturer is obligated to provide it. As I've given half a dozen products that you can only get from a single provider you need to prove that somehow that is causing harm in the market, even when there is credible competition between different products in the same market (i.e. computers with OS X versus computers with Windows, the different game consoles, Tivo versus other DVR makers, Palm OS versus other handheld OSes).
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Open source licenses: grants rights on a copyrighted work that you would not have under copyright law.
EULAs: take rights away on a copyrighted work that you would have under copyright law.
That's an enormous difference. By law, consumers are granted rights. Apple takes these rights away for the sole purpose of harming consumers by limiting choice and advancing lock-in.
This is in NO WAY comparable to GPL lawsuits.
I understand open source quite well thank you very much. You, however, are purposefully avoiding the point of what I wrote.
Whether the license grants or removes rights is completely immaterial, the concept is respecting the license. If you feel that you have a right to infringe on Apple license, regardless of the reason, then you should have no qualms about someone else infringing on the GPL, regardless of the reason.
I can assure you that Linksys feels that their inability to distribute a modified Linux without releasing the source is just as detrimental to them as your inability to install OS X on whatever machines you want to.
Seriously, the fact that you can rationalize a difference between the two says much more about your understanding of open source and respecting software developers than it does mine.
Finally, you're going to have to do a lot more than simply state that Apple's EULA in some way harms consumers. I'm afraid that your opinion carries no weight with me or many other people on this planet. Such comments sound more like hyperbole attempting to appeal to fear than a rational, coherent argument.