Comments on: It’s MY iPhone, Apple! http://firsttube.com/read/its-my-iphone-apple/ crunchy nuggets, served semi-daily Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:27:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Eugenia http://firsttube.com/read/its-my-iphone-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-2613 Eugenia Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:04:06 +0000 http://firsttube.com/?p=1483#comment-2613 If hacking was legal, then that guy who hacked the firmware of the Wii and PS3 wouldn't be facing 10 years of prison time right now. The reality is, the iPhone is a closed platform. The PC is not. But just because you are used to the PC not being a closed platform and allowing all sorts of HW/SW modifications, it doesn't translate to being able to do the same on embedded devices. And this is the biggest GPL shortsightedness btw (going a bit further). If hacking was legal, then that guy who hacked the firmware of the Wii and PS3 wouldn’t be facing 10 years of prison time right now. The reality is, the iPhone is a closed platform. The PC is not. But just because you are used to the PC not being a closed platform and allowing all sorts of HW/SW modifications, it doesn’t translate to being able to do the same on embedded devices.

And this is the biggest GPL shortsightedness btw (going a bit further).

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