samizdat, take two
10:15 | 20-01-2012 | Apple, Software | 1 Comment
что до остальных событий, то представленная вчера программа iBooks Author замечательна без меры — здесь небольшой walkthrough (и еще один, и кое-что об используемом формате), а тут — важное уточнение:
The real story here today shouldn’t be that Apple has ‘audaciously’ claimed ownership of the books make with iBooks Author but that they have created an avenue for non-commercial distribution that would exclude them entirely. That is actually unprecedented.
If I create a textbook using iBooks Author and then decide to made it freely available to the world (a la Khan Academy) I can do that without any restriction. Simple click ‘Export’ within iBook Author and the resulting file can be distributed by any means I choose and then loaded in iBooks. The mind boggles at what things may come out of this.
All Apple is doing with this restriction is saying that if you directly profit from this free tool and platform that we have created, then we deserve our cut. Which seems entirely fair to me.
чем не альтернатива былому?
и о расходах:
маразм.