Under The Bridge

My, it’s nippy out today. Brrrrrrr. That’s strange … ah, that’s what happened, Apple finally promised to drop the Fantastic NDA!

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.

We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect…

However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so…

Well, that’s certainly good news! From no longer having to worry about how to use Open Source software in development when the opened source would conflict with the NDA through being actually able to write something on this allegedly iPhone development focused blog without risking our livelihood by way of actually being able to form a public community of developers and authors around iPhone development without casually disregarding our signed word, this is certainly a bright day all around.

Not that we can blame the Fine NDA’s chilling effect for the loooooong gap in posts that some of you who actually follow this instead of just showing up here from Google have probably noticed. No, we decided September was time for a nice break, so we headed up even further north to visit some serious middle of nowhere, like this Alaskan place that calls itself The Salmon Capital Of The World,

even though of course we all know that’s actually Campbell River on Vancouver Island not some USian tourist trap. But hey, now that we’ve been to both Salmon Capitals Of The World we’re set for sure.

As well, we hit The Land Of The Midnight Sun,

although we didn’t get quite far enough north for that, bah, it was still dark at midnight for us. However, a visit’s a visit, and that gives us a nudge up at mosttraveledpeople.com:

Welcome Alex Curylo!  Your MTP ranking is #405.  You have visited 149 places and have 549 remaining.

Oh yeah! At our rate so far this year we’ll be done … in February of 2283 A.D. OK, guess we have to work a little faster then…