> Could it be that you agree more with the rules Apple has put in place, or at least don't feel as strongly about the rules of the App Store, but maybe feel som

> Could it be that you agree more with the rules Apple has put in place, or at least don't feel as strongly about the rules of the App Store, but maybe feel some distaste for someone trying to "police" this somewhat different arena? Yes. If Apple put those rules for an open source project, I'd reject them just as violently. There is no need to police in open source, no matter how benevolent it is. > Do you have any specific gripes or examples of policies you think are wrong? Yes I think it went far too contextual to be a generic "don't be a jerk" policy. It dictates what emoticons one can use and one cannot. Let me backtrack you to history of smileys. Smileys were invented at CMU because researchers often failed to glean the sentiment of a comment made by a peer reviewer. So they started making happy and sad faces on peer reviews. Now, we don't know how emoticons would evolve in, say, next 30 years. But it sure as hell is possible that someone in open source community might invent something while coloring outside the lines. If he isn't allowed to, we will miss on the invention. Moreover, I have a feeling these policies will be policed more by "community coordinators" or similar people who don't code and will ridicule real contributors for using a wrong emoticon in an issue. No real programmer will care about this non-technical piece of junk. Open source is not for that kind of environment. We don't know what we will stifle by putting such policies. Thinking that we're smart enough to know future is extremely naive.