[Cryptography] Apple and OpenSSL

[tpb-crypto at laposte.net]

> Message du 25/04/14 14:54
> De : "Lodewijk andré de la porte" 
> On Apr 25, 2014 2:43 PM,  wrote:
> >
> > > Message du 24/04/14 00:01
> > > De : "Lodewijk andré de la porte"
> > > [...] The dominant player in the mobile computing industry is, by the
> definition
> > > of the word, not hipster. [...]
> >
> > Helloooo! Apple lost that position to Android by years already, if it
> ever had that position, because when Apple claimed to be dominant in mobile
> it was only smartphones, at that time Nokia dumb phones were still the bulk
> of mobile.
> 
> Mobile includes laptops.
> 

Hello agaaaain! Apple was never, ever dominant in the laptop market, you are making a joke of yourself by insisting in such argumentation.

> > Anyway, for the rest of your arguments, a million dollars donation
> wouldn't make a dent to Apple's baseline but would have made all the
> difference to the FreeBSD folks. Apple receives hate for it and that is
> very deserved.
> 
> There is many, many, many organizations out there that have millions lying
> around. Even private people do.
> 
> Point in question is whether Apple deserves hate for not giving it to
> FreeBSD. The answer is no. [...]

It is not for you to choose, the fact that Apple is receiving hate and it increases as time goes by only invalidates your argument.

> [...] That seems wrong because of ethics. But you have to realize Apple's ethical
> assertions package is different from yours, or freebsd's. Your package
> evidently misses a catch-22 failsafe.
> 

When there's a catch-22 you think about what is morally right, and being stingy seems to be not exactly something that will give love to Apple. The firm is not struggling to survival.

What can happen if people get fed up enough is that like you say, BSD/Mozilla Open Source will disappear and only GNU Licenses will remain, good luck for Apple surviving the long term without having such generous tits to suck from. But its evil has to end.