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[pornel]

RMS is concerned about freedom for end-users.

Apache license gives freedom to developers, including freedom to take freedom away from end-users.

[rimantas → pornel]

And Apple is concerned just about end-users. End users are not concerned about RMS and his concerns at all.

[teilo → rimantas]

No, Apple is concerned about making money. They make money by making things and convincing end-users to buy them. One way to convince end-users is to make something useful and pretty and then market it in the most effective way possible.

They are very good at this, and I do not fault them for it, but I also do not confuse altruism with what is clearly a profit motive.

[atonse → teilo]

So if Apple is making something useful for users, and users reward Apple for it by buying their products, what's the issue again?

[teilo → atonse]

What, in anything I said, did you read as critical of Apple or of Apple's users? For the record, I have been a Mac user for the last five years, but do I really need to say that every time I describe Apple's profit motive?

[einarvollset → teilo]

Unlike Google's altruism?

[teilo → einarvollset]

Ah, assigning motives to my comment. No, what I said about Apple is just as true of Google. And Microsoft.