To summarize: The App Store terms apply to GPLed software in the App Store. Those terms force strict Usage Rules on customers that prohibit many activities that are allowed under the GPL. Those restrictions are not allowed under GPLv2 section 6. Again, if any of you have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer them. …
Category Archives: General
Uncool
“These companies are being valued as if they will be our permanent means for identifying ourselves….Yet social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It’s the people that matter, not the venue” – Douglas Rushkoff
Or Hacking
“They call this ‘content’. But it’s not, really — it’s filler. And by a more common-sense definition, it’s spam.” – Marco Armet
A Holiday Reminder
“we are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers. we are human beings – and our reach exceeds your grasp. Deal with it.”
Keep Digging Yourself
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” – e.e. cummings “There are a lot of people that don’t start making money until you briefly forget …
The Future of Publishing: Cory Doctorow
“My guiding principle in this project has been thrift. Without a publisher to capitalize the book, I’m doing my darndest to spend money only when it makes me money. Lucky for me, today’s world is one where that constraint is well accommodated. Obviously, the print-on-demand paperbacks don’t cost anything — the book doesn’t exist until …
Yahoo’s a Memory Hole
“Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the Internet, built a huge fucking lobster trap, absorbed as much of human history and creativity as they could, and destroyed all of it.” – Jason Scott, Archive Team
The Rumors of Quicksilver’s Death are Melodramatic
“It was a good run. So long, old friend.” – Merlin Mann “It’s just that given the choice between helping to keep something you love alive, and very publicly declaring it dead, I’m not sure why you’d choose the latter.” – Rob McBroom It seems a tad melodramatic to declare a functioning piece of open …
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Peerless
“Why can’t you be as trustworthy on the Web as you are walking into any store off the street? The reason is that you have no status on the Web itself beyond the minima implied by the term ‘user.’ Whatever status you experience is what’s granted by site owners. You are the client. Your position …