Apple: We have decided to no longer release Libm source (2013)

Post by davidw » Sat, Oct 25, 2014, 9:27 AM UTC

davidw wrote: post #39

halostatue wrote: post #34

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Yeah. Ubuntu’s one of the ones that have gotten better. When I was still working with C++ for multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, …) I ran an Ubuntu desktop with VMware Workstation to contain Windows in a useful (less dangerous) place. With the exception of some stupidity around hald with Ubuntu 8.04, it was pretty good (there were several other people who followed my lead on this) except that I…

> To make a slightly tortured analogy, I need a pre-assembled propane barbecue, because I have food to make. Other people want to go through the whole process of building their barbecue (or at least putting its pieces together), but I’d rather be cooking That's kind of funny :-) https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DavidWelton/posts/96kQRRC1L2W https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DavidWelton/posts/9CdDeqjCcfY https://plus.google.co…

Making it took much less time than it takes to smoke most things. The turkey took about 12 hours, but it was the best turkey I've ever had!

Post by zimpenfish » Mon, Oct 27, 2014, 9:54 AM UTC

techrat wrote: post #40

geden wrote: post #13

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DRM in iTunes was solely at record companies request. Not an Apple choice. This has been repeatedly covered before. http://news.cnet.com/Apples-Jobs-calls-for-DRM-free-music/21... I would argue that Apples strength is it's ability to make daring technology choices which drives the whole market forward. (Adoption of USB, dropping floppies, CDROMs, introducing iPhone, iPad) and in the long run that is very pro-consumer…

Labels who requested that their songs be DRM free in the iTunes store during this era were denied that option. Jobs called for DRM free music because he saw that he was going to run into serious anticompetitive charges if he didn't allow for people to use iTunes purchases outside of iTunes and iPods.

Do you have any fact-based evidence for the second claim?

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