With Apple, at least you can blame it on Steve Jobs' overinflated ego. With Facebook, it is most likely some middle-tier lawyer "just doing his job." That seems to have been the case with IBM and TurboHercules.
That said, as we move to more "cloud-oriented" platforms, we are most likely going to see more and more of these types of issues. And suddenly, regardless of how open the platform that you are running on locally is, all of your data and applications are living in a world that is locked-down and has arbitrarily-enforced rules and regulations. My only hope is that open platforms "win" in the end..
That said, as we move to more "cloud-oriented" platforms, we are most likely going to see more and more of these types of issues. And suddenly, regardless of how open the platform that you are running on locally is, all of your data and applications are living in a world that is locked-down and has arbitrarily-enforced rules and regulations. My only hope is that open platforms "win" in the end..