Re: Octave for Raspberry-Pi Microcontroller/Computer

[edmund ronald]

BTW,

 RMS and co are not doing anyone a favor by hyping the practical
effect of Apple's hate of free software.
 Apple *has* been taking some extreme measures to keep free software
off *its own* Appstore, but that does not mean it can keep the
end-users from compiling or installing the software.
Edmund

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:20 PM, edmund ronald <address@hidden> wrote:
> It is not "illegal" because there is no criminal law against it, just
> a license between you and Apple or Apple and the user.
>
> In other words, Apple cannot go to the police and complain if someone
> is running Octave on a jailbroken iPad, just as they cannot make
> jailbreaking disappear by running to the FBI and having the people who
> make jailbreaking tools and the users of independenlty programmed
> software put in prison.
>
> If they could they would already have done so.
>
> So I would suggest you release a build package for Octave for iPad,
> just as on the Mac, and let people who want to compile it or put it up
> on the jailbroken store, Cydia.
>
> And please stop warning people that things are illegal", because the
> whole point of democracy is that we have freedom rather than fear.
>
> Edmund
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 4 January 2013 09:35, edmund ronald <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> What would be really welcome would be iPad, iPhone and Android versions 
>>> IMHO.
>>
>> Corbin Champion <address@hidden> is attempting to get Octave on
>> Android. If you want to help him, you should contact him.
>>
>>> We may not like the Apple attitude, but the devices are really useful,
>>> as they are instant-on and zero-maintenance.
>>
>> The legal issues with locked-down iThings pose a lot of problems for
>> free software, so it's not just a matter of not liking their attitude,
>> but that their attitude actually forbids GPLv3 software. They don't
>> want you to run free software, because they want to make sure they can
>> control what software you can install on them, so it's plain illegal
>> to get Octave on iThings under some jurisdictions.
>>
>> - Jordi G. H.