Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement/4360
I may start sounding like a broken record but greed, the desire to control and uncompetitive practices are prevalent and is expeced of Apple. That seems to be in their blood. Until Steve Job's demise, I thought it was him who was influencing all this. But it continues in his absence which leads me to believe that either he has had indelible influence on the company's culture. Or, that is what Apple has always been.
Anyway, some choice quotes from the linked article:
I may start sounding like a broken record but greed, the desire to control and uncompetitive practices are prevalent and is expeced of Apple. That seems to be in their blood. Until Steve Job's demise, I thought it was him who was influencing all this. But it continues in his absence which leads me to believe that either he has had indelible influence on the company's culture. Or, that is what Apple has always been.
Anyway, some choice quotes from the linked article:
"I have never seen a EULA as mind-bogglingly greedy and evil as Apple’s EULA for its new ebook authoring program."
"Under this license agreement, you are out of luck. They won’t sell it, and you can’t legally sell it elsewhere. You can give it away, but you can’t sell it. Updated to add: By “it,” I am referring to the book, not the content. The program allows you to export your work as plain text, with all formatting stripped. So you do have the option to take the formatting work you did in iBooks Author, throw it away, and start over. That is a devastating potential limitation for an author/publisher. Outputting as PDF would preserve the formatting, but again the license would appear to prohibit you from selling that work, because it was generated by iBooks Author."
