Open-Source advocates, Defective By Design, are planning an in-store Apple protest.
The group is recruiting readers to book slots at their local Apple Store's Genius Bar to question the employees about Apple's policies concerning the iPhone development, DRM and Apple's use of proprietary standards.
We love open-source and DRM-free software and music as much as the next guy. It just seems that asking the Genius Bar employee about larger company policies is like asking the guy who pumps your gas why the price the oil is so high.
Bear90039
July 29, 2008 at 10:17pm
An appointment with the Genius Bar isn't free. It's not even cheap. You need a credit card to book the appointment if you haven't paid for a service agreement.
What answers do you expect to get from a branch level employee? You did say Genius Bar didn't you, not Corporate Executive Bar. The only answers you are likely to get is the employee's name and how much you are being billed.
You also realize that if this story is bogus; Roberto, you are the ass.
Roberto Baldwin
July 31, 2008 at 11:17am
First of all, you bring up very valid points about Genius Bar reservations.
But to say that I'm an ass if the group is bogus is incorrect. If the group, or their mission, is bogus and I've reported on it, that makes me an idiot, not an ass.
I just wanted to set the record straight!
