www/proprietary proprietary-jails.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/10/06 18:58:41

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-jails.html 

Log message:
        Explain about swift programs.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.4&r2=1.5

Patches:
Index: proprietary-jails.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-jails.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- proprietary-jails.html      30 Jun 2015 06:59:53 -0000      1.4
+++ proprietary-jails.html      6 Oct 2015 18:58:41 -0000       1.5
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 <a href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">Other examples of proprietary 
malware</a>
 
 <p>Here are examples of proprietary systems that are
-<em>jails</em>&mdash;they do not allow the user to freely install
+<em>jails</em>:they do not allow the user to freely install
 applications.  The <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ZRViDum.jpg";>image of
 the iPrison</a> illustrates this issue.</p>
 <!-- embed http://i.imgur.com/ZRViDum.jpg here -->
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@
 
 <li>
 <p><a 
href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-yo.html";>
-iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is a jail.</a>
-Apple introduced the practice of designing general purposes computers
-as jails for their users.</p>
+iOS, the operating system of the Apple iThings, is the prototype of a
+jail.</a>  It was Apple that introduced the practice of designing
+general purposes computers with censorship of application
+programs.</p>
 
 <p>Apple used this censorship power in 2014
 to <a 
href="http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/apple-yanks-last-remaining-bit.html";>
@@ -60,6 +61,15 @@
 <p>Here is an article about
 the <a 
href="http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2008/03/07/code-signing-and-you/";>code
 signing</a> that the iThings use to lock up the user.</p>
+
+<p>Curiously, Apple is beginning to allow limited passage through the
+walls of the the iThing jail: Users can now install apps built from
+source code, provided the source code is written in Swift.  Users
+cannot do this freely because they required to identify themselves.
+<a href="https://developer.apple.com/xcode/";>Here are details.</a></p>
+
+<p>While this is a crack in the prison walls, it is not big enough to
+mean that the iThings are no longer jails.</p>
 </li>
 
 <li>
@@ -135,7 +145,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/06/30 06:59:53 $
+$Date: 2015/10/06 18:58:41 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>