> What they're getting at is that services should leverage open technologies so that nobody's platform gets shut out
While I agree it would be nice to live in a world where everything is based upon an open standard, it's laughable at best for Blackberry of all companies to call for this. Blackberry dominated the market for years by locking other systems out, and just because they ported BBM to iOS and Android doesn't all of the sudden give them the moral high ground. If they truly cared about "application neutrality" or whatever term they coined, they should open the BBM spec and let anyone who wanted to build on top of that.
It doesn't sound like Richard would appreciate this scenario though, which I find a little sad.
Of course. That's why they're doing it. Everyone is walking on eggshells trying to appease RMS, but he's not having it. Later in the thread it sounds like he's about to have a tantrum. Someone calls him out and says that writing what RMS thinks would be acceptable is a waste of time to which RMS responds
You consider it a waste of time, because you see the value in what
I am trying to protect.
While I agree it would be nice to live in a world where everything is based upon an open standard, it's laughable at best for Blackberry of all companies to call for this. Blackberry dominated the market for years by locking other systems out, and just because they ported BBM to iOS and Android doesn't all of the sudden give them the moral high ground. If they truly cared about "application neutrality" or whatever term they coined, they should open the BBM spec and let anyone who wanted to build on top of that.