I find the story like this: Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot.
Open source software is something both Microsoft and Apple should embrace. If I were them, I would devise a way to enable even GPLv3 apps to coexist.
Open source software is something both Microsoft and Apple should embrace. If I were them, I would devise a way to enable even GPLv3 apps to coexist.
I don't think my mom is less of a person (morally or otherwise) for being this way. We're not fools because we freely choose to pay a little bit of money for a lot more convenience in our lives. Nor are we trading any freedom^ - if we were to someday not like the terms we agree to today, we're always free to buy or use something else in the future.
^This is something that Stallman (and a lot of other people get wrong). The concept of freedom only applies to individuals, not to groups. Individuals have the right to assemble into groups, but groups do not have any special rights aside from the aggregate of the individual rights of its members. By using regular software that we freely pay for, my mom and I are not harming anyone. Stallman claims that we are!
They could work out a process for developers who want to contribute GPLed apps, but they've decided not to.
In some cases it is (particularly in the infrastructure department), but in many cases it is not in any significant way.
They claimed they were in their market statements