http://thecommandline.net/2010/05/07/is-programming-language-choice-a-right/ Podcast and blog exploring digital citizenry as a creator and a consumer. Tue, 15 May 2012 23:05:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://thecommandline.net/2010/05/07/is-programming-language-choice-a-right/comment-page-1/#comment-4862 Ian Bogost Fri, 07 May 2010 22:22:57 +0000 http://thecommandline.net/2010/05/07/is-programming-language-choice-a-right/#comment-4862 You're right that this is a legal rather than a technical limit, but that puts two questions in my brain: (1) What does the provocation of a legal constraint tell us about the assumptions we make about programming universality? (2) How should we construe Apple's insistence that their platform is a strongly determined combination of hardware and software? No answers, just questions. You’re right that this is a legal rather than a technical limit, but that puts two questions in my brain: (1) What does the provocation of a legal constraint tell us about the assumptions we make about programming universality? (2) How should we construe Apple’s insistence that their platform is a strongly determined combination of hardware and software? No answers, just questions.

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