TBH as open source developer I don't feel like publishing kernel sources makes it any easier for me to create applications for their platform.
If I want to create an application for android, I can download android studio and run it on Windows, Linux or Mac. The studio itself is open source and programs are easy to package. If I want to create an application for iPhone, I have to own a Mac, because even if I wanted to buy OS only and install it on non-apple hardware, it wouldn't work and xcode is not available for any other platform than Mac. This is blocker for any open source developer who wants to create non-profit software and isn't willing to put money into something that is never gonna be useful for them, so that they can create software that others can freely use. This is case of all apple products, even if I wanted to create a program for Windows, which is commercial platform, I can easily do that on linux and compile with mingw compiler that can build .exe files on linux. But in case of apple you can only dream of that. On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 08/02/2015 15:26, Petr Bena a écrit : >> What can I say, I always had a feeling that apple hates open source >> and likes to block open source devs in all possible ways, this just >> ensures me in this feeling. One more reason for me to be happy not to >> have to work with their products. > > You have wrong feelings really: http://opensource.apple.com/ > > Even the kernel (XNU) is published under an open source license: > > http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/ > > FSF's Opinion of the Apple Public Source License (APSL) 2.0 > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.en.html > > > The AppStore terms of service is not compatibe with GPLv2 since they > restrict distribution and use in addition of the GPLv2 restrictions. So > it is not surprising that Apple acts as a good citizen by respecting the > license and thus preventing people from adding GPLv2 apps. They just > make sure the license is respected. > > > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
