On 05/29/2012 11:48 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: > On 5/29/2012 8:59 AM, Mounir Lamouri wrote: >> On 05/22/2012 05:31 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote: >>> [...] If the author of a free app wishes to list it only on >>> specific stores, that's their decision to make. >> >> On 05/28/2012 06:25 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote: >>> >>> That's an incorrect statement. We are defaulting to openness and >>> optionally allowing developers to control how their app is distributed. >>> Which is still in my book, completely orthogonal to the question of >>> openness. >> >> Im my opinion, if you give the tools for an application developer to do >> a whitelist of marketplaces allowed to install its application, you are >> giving the tools to prevent openness. > > That sounds an awful lot like the kinds of arguments the walled gardens > are making. "IF you give developers power and control, they'll abuse it > so we're better off not giving it."
I'm not saying that developers will abuse the feature, I'm pointing that such a feature will make network effects very dangerous as Gerv pointed. -- Mounir _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
