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> but nothing prevents there being e.g. a community of people running open-source apps that don't abide by the App Store restrictions, all compiling them on the
by eric-hu 8y ago
> but nothing prevents there being e.g. a community of people running open-source apps that don't abide by the App Store restrictions, all compiling them on their own machines.
My memory could be wrong on this, but I thought this is exactly what the Flux app did and Apple sent them a cease and desist for keeping the self compile and self sign instructions online.
In a sense, you're still right as long as the community stays small enough that it doesn't get the attention of Apple.
- saagarjha 8y agof.lux is not open source, and Apple told it to stop because it tried to distribute itself as an opaque binary rather than something that users could compile themselves.
- eric-hu 8y agoI don't think this is accurate. The original announcement HN thread includes discussion of the source, which is linked and still online on GitHub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550427