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Developers question why Apple keeps its iPhone 2.0 SDK under NDA
AppleInsider — ... , "Some developers who are seeking help have resorted to paying each other $1. That way, if challenged by Apple's legal department, they can argue that they are subcontractors and therefore free to discuss the software." Why NDA? Apple certainly isn't alone in putting developers under NDA. Google's Android open source project selected a subset of its software developers earlier this year and offered them private access to special builds of the software after signing an NDA. This resulted in complaints from the open community among those who were shut out of access to all of ...

Corporate legal scrambles to withdraw inflated Palm Pre claims
AppleInsider — ... phones. Apple has also outpaced Google's Android in significant updates over the past two years of parallel development, making it had to imagine how the struggling Palm, kept alive only by the investment grace of Elevation Partners' millions, will manage to outpace the leader in platform development using an entirely new operating system ...