Re: Goodbye Lua on iPhone?

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Stephen Kellett wrote:
> http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/04/iPhone-License-Change

More idle musings. It is an impressive and illuminating testament 
to the kind of corporate culture Apple has that Apple still does 
not appear to have made any kind of official clarification. (Apart 
from the few terse messages purportedly from the top.)

I don't think they will do anything about it since rescinding it 
in public will mean a climbdown by the top fella, so it will be a 
Sword of Damocles for a while and they will likely leave some 
parties hanging in limbo -- like Opera and Adobe. After all, they 
haven't chopped anyone yet, have they? I bet rather few apps will 
be affected. Rather wacky behaviour for a big company, but I guess 
this is par for Apple.

Then, a month or two from now, I think Apple will quietly tweak 
the legal prose again. Rather disturbing, it seems to me all too 
similar any number of tyrannies who seeks absolute control of 
information and history while appearing to look squeaky clean and 
angelic.

Oh what fun. At least developers now know better where they stand 
in Apple's eyes...

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia