NY Review of Books: "The iPad Revolution"
The New York Review of Books *The iPad Revolution* by Sue Halpern June 10, 2010 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/ipad-revolution/?page=1 Passaggio conclusivo: [...] /Still, Apple's vetting is the antithesis of the openness that has sparked much of the creativity and ingenuity that defines and drives the Internet. Since the release of the first browser seventeen years ago, the Internet has been an unrestricted playground, accessible to just about anyone. Its openness is why some governments fear it, why certain corporations are threatened by it, why a formerly unknown singer can sell a million albums, why a teenager in Mumbai can contribute computer code to a piece of software developed in Amsterdam and distributed globally. / /The Open Source movement and Creative Commons both derive from the Internet's essential freedom, a leveling that allows designers and filmmakers and singers and craftsmen and any number of writers, activists, politicians, artists, and entrepreneurs, many of them amateurs, to develop and disseminate their ideas. Imagine what the Internet, and our lives, would be like if, after inventing the Mosaic Web browser back in 1993, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina not only required users to buy it but required payment for every click or download or page view. Try to imagine how a privatized, monetized Internet might have developed, and you can't, because its evolutionary path would have been so different. Apple's iPad apps may be ingenious. They may be fun and entertaining. They may be useful. What they can't be is free of Apple's control./ juan carlos
A questo proposito, sempre sull'iPad e sempre sul tema "Apple is evil", segnalo anche le taglienti (anche se sempre un po' scontate) critiche di RMS: http://temi.repubblica.it/micromega-online/stallman-lipad-un-ibad-per-la-lib... un passaggio: "Apple proibisce il software libero sulle sue piattaforme, lo scrive in modo esplicito nelle condizioni di acquisto. Perché vuole il controllo totale dell'utente. Se devi cambiare la batteria del tuo dispositivo, prima di dartene una nuova loro controllano se sei stato obbediente. In caso contrario, resti senza batteria. Perché mai uno dovrebbe pensare, anche per un solo istante, di comprare un prodotto del genere? E' un sistema pensato per ridurre i diritti dell'utente. Comprare un iBad è come infilarsi da soli un paio di manette digitali. Il vero guaio è che Apple ha fatto in modo che la gente non sappia più quali sono le sue libertà, e se lo sa, pensa di non meritarsele." Luciano -- Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali Università di Torino Il giorno lun, 07/06/2010 alle 15.31 +0200, J.C. DE MARTIN ha scritto:
The New York Review of Books The iPad Revolution by Sue Halpern June 10, 2010
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/ipad-revolution/?page=1
Passaggio conclusivo:
[...] Still, Apple’s vetting is the antithesis of the openness that has sparked much of the creativity and ingenuity that defines and drives the Internet. Since the release of the first browser seventeen years ago, the Internet has been an unrestricted playground, accessible to just about anyone. Its openness is why some governments fear it, why certain corporations are threatened by it, why a formerly unknown singer can sell a million albums, why a teenager in Mumbai can contribute computer code to a piece of software developed in Amsterdam and distributed globally.
The Open Source movement and Creative Commons both derive from the Internet’s essential freedom, a leveling that allows designers and filmmakers and singers and craftsmen and any number of writers, activists, politicians, artists, and entrepreneurs, many of them amateurs, to develop and disseminate their ideas. Imagine what the Internet, and our lives, would be like if, after inventing the Mosaic Web browser back in 1993, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina not only required users to buy it but required payment for every click or download or page view. Try to imagine how a privatized, monetized Internet might have developed, and you can’t, because its evolutionary path would have been so different. Apple’s iPad apps may be ingenious. They may be fun and entertaining. They may be useful. What they can’t be is free of Apple’s control.
juan carlos
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