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		<title>Will the Mac remain an open platform?</title>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:52:06 GMT" pgfnum="148" text="There's always a lot of debate about what &quot;open&quot; means, so let me say what I mean by open in this context."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:01:23 GMT" pgfnum="157" text="A story to illustrate."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:52:25 GMT" pgfnum="149" text="Right now I'm sitting in Starbucks on Astor Place in NYC. I'm looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/5101918031/&quot;&gt;entrance&lt;/a&gt; to a NYC subway &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_Place_%28IRT_Lexington_Avenue_Line%29&quot;&gt;station&lt;/a&gt;. Every minute a hundred people walk down the stairs to pass through a turnstile where they pay a fare. They wait for a train, get on it. It takes them somewhere. Once there, they reverse the process (except they don't get their money back)."></outline>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/5101918031/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2010/10/21/subwayPeople.jpg&quot; width=&quot;350&quot; height=&quot;241&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named subwayPeople.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:53:31 GMT" pgfnum="150" text="There's no Apple employee at any of the entrances, deciding if they are dressed well enough to get on the subway. There isn't anyone there to be sure you aren't carrying a virus that you could give to everyone you come in contact with on the subway."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:54:19 GMT" pgfnum="151" text="It's in that sense that the Mac is, today, an open platform. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:54:29 GMT" pgfnum="152" text="I can install whatever I want on it. No one can tell me what I can and can't."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:54:43 GMT" pgfnum="153" text="I know intuitively that we took the next step yesterday toward the day when the Mac is not an open platform in this sense. I'm not going to say it's right or wrong, or a betrayal of trust, or make any moral judgements. I'm not even going to say it's not wise, for all I know it's the best business decision Apple could make. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:55:49 GMT" pgfnum="154" text="But for me, it sucks. Makes me sad. "></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:56:08 GMT" pgfnum="155" text="If there's nothing to worry about I wish Apple would say &quot;there's nothing to worry about, the Mac will always remain the kind of platform where you can run anything you want.&quot;"></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:56:56 GMT" pgfnum="156" text="On the other hand, it would be smart for Microsoft to find a way to say that Windows will never be a locked platform, that they will never try to dictate who can and can't ship software for it. Seems like a small concession for a company that's operating under an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft&quot;&gt;antitrust settlement&lt;/a&gt; that prohibits it from erecting barriers to entry to the Windows platform. (And at some point, if Apple isn't very careful, they're going to end up being supervised the same way Microsoft is.)"></outline>
			<outline text="I depend on the Mac for my work, and I don't see Apple approving my software, nor do I see myself applying for their approval."></outline>
			<outline created="Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:03:11 GMT" pgfnum="2888" text="Update: &lt;a href=&quot;http://rc3.org/2010/10/21/is-the-mac-becoming-a-closed-platform/&quot;&gt;Rafe Colburn thinks&lt;/a&gt; the Mac will &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; become a gated platform."></outline>
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