Jobs has always been leery (at best) of licensing his tech. He seems to have a pathological fear of giving up control of anything. It's why the PC won out over the Apple architecture--anybody could always build to the PC platform, but for, well, ever, nobody but Apple could build an Apple. Competition and copious supply made the PC a no-brainer for the accountants.
(It's also a big reason why the PC platform has historically been buggier than the Apple platform--and why the Apple platform is going to get buggier in the future--but that's another rant.)
So it doesn't surprise me that it wasn't a pitch to license FairPlay.
It also doesn't surprise me that slashdot is knee-jerking. Why does it surprise you? :)
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Date: 2007-02-12 11:11 pm (UTC)(It's also a big reason why the PC platform has historically been buggier than the Apple platform--and why the Apple platform is going to get buggier in the future--but that's another rant.)
So it doesn't surprise me that it wasn't a pitch to license FairPlay.
It also doesn't surprise me that slashdot is knee-jerking. Why does it surprise you? :)