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On Aug 5, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Scot Forsall <{SD- votc:
called but didn't get ahold of you this evening
We have been planning to put on an iPhone development lass at Stanford in the fll. They are
baking now because of the NDA. One issue they have is that classes re videotaped and put
online late (possibly through Tunes U in addition to the campus television network). They are
afraid that the NDA may prevent that
1 have aso heard from authors who ar afraid o publish books sbout iPhone development
because of the NDA.
And Ihave heard from developers who are afaid to publish sample code, give out open source
code, or comment on development websites because ofthe NDA
‘We really, really want to create an incredible developer community, want to have tons of books
about iPhone development, and want to encourage courses on iPhone app development at
universities. Even if we could convince everyone that the NDA is not as restrictive as they fear
(although in some cases think i might be), why bother? Why not just le the community tive?
T expect Android to be completely open: no NDA, open source, ete. I don't think it serves us to
be so closed in comparison.
I'm not familiar with the ex Adobe employee's developer program, but if he wants to teach
developers about how to develop for the iPhone, why not let him? We should be encouraging
people to leam about iPhone development. And since we have created the best materials, why
ot let them use our materials? Is just ike buying our textbooks and teaching from then
Maybe I'm missing something (which is definitely possible). but I don't think we're hiding
anything useful with the NDA--just scaring away potential developers.
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On Aug 4, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Steve Jobs wrote: |
Scot really disagrees on the second point. I think you need to make a much better and complete:
argument if you want to keep the NDA. think we need to decid realy soon if we wan to
capture classes at MIT and Stanford this fall.
Steve
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