Re: [xmlvm-users] Apple agreements

[Ilya L. <ily...@gm...>]

since we're talking sensible, one feels it would not be out of place to
remark that it would also behoove the participants to retain -- on a public
mailing list -- a basic level of courtesy in their posts. there is an
unfortunate tendency in electronic communication to allow one's passion to
spill on the screen where it would be kept in check during a face-to-face
interaction. this tendency is further aggravated by the absence of cues such
as tone and body language -- particularly if one is averse to emoticons --
to indicate subtleties of meaning (e.g. sarcasm), which contributes to
private misconstruction of what is said (e.g. over-reaching,
hyper-controlling corporations = "paranoid 'evil corporation' stuff"). all
that brings us back to the indeed very sensible call to restrict the forum
to technical questions not likely to cause discord and contention.

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tm...@ik...> wrote:

> > sounds like there might be another worthy project here -- cleaning up
> > tool-generated code to make it look man-made so as to avoid detection by
> > over-reaching, hyper-controlling corporations.
>
> Is it sensible to discuss on a public mailing list how to
> intentionally mislead one's contract partner? On the contrary, if one
> wants to show that Apple's fears are unfounded, shouldn't one be
> perfectly open about the technology used for a produce a well working
> and behaving iPhone app? (Like XMLVM is with Xokoban, for instance.)
>
> Also, please spare us the paranoid "evil corporation" stuff. Remember,
> nobody is forcing you to agree with Apple's terms. There are other
> equally over-reaching hyper-controlling corporations that have
> competing mobile device application markets with less restrictive
> terms.
>
> --tml
>