www/proprietary malware-apple.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/02/10 08:31:48

Modified files:
        proprietary    : malware-apple.html 

Log message:
        [RT # 1268079] Add section about incompatibility.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-apple.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.62&r2=1.63

Patches:
Index: malware-apple.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-apple.html,v
retrieving revision 1.62
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -u -b -r1.62 -r1.63
--- malware-apple.html  2 Feb 2018 16:19:49 -0000       1.62
+++ malware-apple.html  10 Feb 2018 13:31:48 -0000      1.63
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 <li><a href="#sabotage">Sabotage</a></li>
 <li><a href="#interference">Interference</a></li>
 <li><a href="#surveillance">Surveillance</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatibility">Incompatibility</a></li>
 <li><a href="#drm">Digital restrictions
     management</a> or &ldquo;DRM&rdquo; means functionalities designed
     to restrict what users can do with the data in their computers.</li>
@@ -366,6 +367,37 @@
   </li>
 </ul>
 
+
+<h3 id="incompatibility">Apple Incompatibility</h3>
+
+<p>In this section, we list characteristics of Apple programs that block or
+hinder users from switching to any alternative program&mdash;and, in
+particular, from switching to free software which can liberate the device
+the software runs on.</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>iWork (office software that runs on MacOS, iOS and iCloud) uses secret
+formats and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWork";>provides no means
+of converting them to or from Open Document Formats</a>. iWork formats
+have changed several times since they were first introduced. This may have
+had the effect of thwarting <a
+href="https://github.com/obriensp/iWorkFileFormat";>reverse engineering
+efforts</a>, thus preventing free software from fully supporting them.</p>
+
+<p>iWork formats are considered <a
+href="https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/download/attachments/204385883/Format%20profile%20-%20Apple%20iWork%20Pages%20v04.docx?version=1&amp;modificationDate=1459873751000&amp;api=v2";>
+unfit for document preservation</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>In MacOS and iOS, the procedure for <a
+href="https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/export-photos-videos-and-slideshows-pht6e157c5f/mac";>
+converting images from the Photos format</a> to a free format is so tedious
+and time-consuming that users just give up if they have a lot of them.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
 <h3 id="drm">Apple DRM</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><p>iTunes videos have DRM, which allows Apple to <a
@@ -516,7 +548,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/02/02 16:19:49 $
+$Date: 2018/02/10 13:31:48 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>