Paul posted about one of the arguments in the Free Software Foundation’s article 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G ‘. I’m going to talk about several of their other points.
iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can’t be on everyone’s phones.
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Another Reason (not) to avoid the iPhone 3G
DRM, Crypto, and FSF Sillyness
The Free Software Foundation recently released a list of five reasons to avoid the iPhone 3G. The thing that gets me is point two: “iPhone endorses and supports Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology.” This seemed perfectly in line with the normal FSF line until I got to thinking about crypto, which is endorsed and supported [...]