The latest series of iPhone TV commercials really bug me. First of all it costs at least $99 to obtain access to the “Developer Program”. Then Apple has the guts to advertise that they have “the most apps evar!” to stimulate more iPhone sales. What is wrong with this picture? If Apple is going to exploit the work of apps developers, many of whom distribute their apps for free, then shouldn’t the cost to join the developer network be free as well?

Well, not really Linux related but I ran across a post today about Open Source Hardware. I guess it makes sense, and it pretty cool. Consider the Linksys WRT54G series, one of Linksys best sellers nowadays because some people discovered it was running embedded Linux. This isn’t quite the same as OSHardware, but close. Now consider having a profitable company that releases all specs to the microcontroller that they are mass producing, very neat idea.