Constitutional Opposition

One part of this post by Daring Fireball on the iPhone SDK licensing agreement made me chuckle:

If you are constitutionally opposed to developing for a platform where you’re expected to follow the advice of the platform vendor, the iPhone OS is not the platform for you. It never was. It never will be.

It inspired me to come up with a new quotable:

If you are constitutionally opposed to developing for a platform where you’re expected to follow the advice of the platform vendor, you should not be a computer programmer.

See also basically every post by Raymond Chen: "just because, in Win98SE2, you could call SomeRandomWin32API with a combination of NULL, -1, and Bill Gate's IQ and get an undocumented behavior that violates all of Microsoft's guidelines for applications development doesn't mean it will continue to work in Windows 7."