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The codebase is arguably more open but the platform as a whole is not. I think the closed platform thing is a lot more troubling and has the potential to be wo
by Kadin 17y ago
The codebase is arguably more open but the platform as a whole is not.
I think the closed platform thing is a lot more troubling and has the potential to be worse for the market as a whole than if they had decided to build a proprietary browser but allowed other browsers on it.
(This is not to defend Microsoft's portable strategy, though; they've got the worst of both worlds. They have a shitty proprietary browser and then don't let you install anything else on it, AFAIK.)
- tptacek 17y agoI agree. Apple isn't as open as I'd like either, although I'm not worried about it (I think I, as a user and a developer, benefit from it). But that's not really the argument here, is it? The argument is, "does Apple make Gates look like RMS". I don't think that's a credible claim.