This is exactly what we knew would happen. Apple is not our friend. They are at best an ally, and at worst prepared to destroy an industry for the sake of profit and domination.
Well, if RMS and similar zealots could have their way, they would have crushed the software industry for the sake of OSS/GNU domination. If he could influence policy, for example, he'd probably try to ban proprietary software.
And if you think that's beneficial, well, I for one would rather keep my Premiere and Logic and the (dongle locked) Reason, than just be forced to use the crappy open source alternatives out there.
People who want good software would find a way to make it and pay for it even if proprietary software were outlawed (which I don't think is a good idea, for the record).
The framework source code is not the important part -- it's just dumb plumbing and glue. The tracking code (NITE) is what's important. It is not open source at all -- merely freely available. (All you can get are the compiled libraries.) As far as I know, this is the only freely available, full body skeleton tracker that works on Linux.
>They are at best an ally, and at worst prepared to destroy an industry for the sake of profit and domination.
You mean the iOS app industry that they created out of thin air themselves, offering the platform, an API, and a far better environment (and terms) than the god awful Java ME stores of the past?
Why, did parent talked specifically about the augmented reality apps industry, or used the OpenNI to make a general point about how Apple would crush the independent app industry for profit?
