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Originally Posted by jeisner
Written by an Apple fanboy I think?
How is the iphone as open as you can get without being open-source?
Please thats a joke, I need Apple's approval to run my own code on the iphone, far more closed than even Microsoft.. And the source code for windows ce kernel is available under the MS shared source scheme.
The license for the 'free' Apple SDK even forbids open source development.
That article is a poor joke IMO..
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I think it was written by someone with a poor grip on reality rather than a Apple Fanboy ... because IMO you can't really have a 'somewhat open' OS any more than you can be a little bit pregnant
OS X might have some open source elements, but Apple has always been extremely tight about protecting its' OS and interface. The iPhone is a very closed architecture, regardless of the OS and SDK - and many see that as a strength. But regardless, it isn't open in any real way.