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> How much should you have to pay for unlimited bandwidth, hosting, downloads, user ratings, reviews, feedback, crash logs, showing up in searches, the chance t

> How much should you have to pay for unlimited bandwidth, hosting, downloads, user ratings, reviews, feedback, crash logs, showing up in searches, the chance to get featured, and other features like CloudKit etc.? As others have already pointed out, I'm talking about the fact that Apple charges $100/year to make your software runnable on a Mac, regardless of whether you want to use their app store. > Where did you get that from? From the blog post that we're all supposedly discussing: "The next reviewer saw the “blue screen of death” art and said that it conflicts with copyright (it’s Microsoft) as well as simulated error not being allowed. So I changed that too. After that it got arbitrarily rejected for another reason… so at this point I changed so much about the game that it wasn’t even my work anymore. It didn’t reflect any of the things that were important to my work. Simulated error, glitch art, brokeness, historic UI’s are deeply important to me because they reflect a computer history. None of that was allowed. I had to change my games." > How is that different from Steam, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony not allowing certain types of content on their platforms? Steam is a free service that doesn't prevent me from running non-Steam software on my computer. As for your other examples, I don't think it's different. I think restrictions on user freedom are made worse, not better, by the fact that lots of companies are engaging in them.

uriro9n 7y ago
Look the point stands: it’s a non-free as in speech & beer platform Go work with Purism if you want to ship whatever What a shock Apple is also nickle & diming for services as hardware sales atrophy. This is business 101. If we don’t like how businesses work we should stop working for them. Paying for beer & leaving speech free never works. We end up talking about supporting paid beer. Free speech becomes all about what we buy & sell. If you want a free society that doesn’t end up in a nickle & dime system of inequality a test should be is life free as in speech & beer? Organized around resource distribution sure, but free of coercion to support paid speech all day (where to be viable in the eyes of society work must earn money). That’s the DNA of our culture. These are not random things. This is what we and Apple talk about all day: financial justification for behavior. That’s a complete corruption of free speech.

uriro9n 7y ago

Look the point stands: it’s a non-free as in speech & beer platform Go work with Purism if you want to ship whatever What a shock Apple is also nickle & diming for services as hardware sales atrophy. This is business 101. If we don’t like how businesses work we should stop working for them. Paying for beer & leaving speech free never works. We end up talking about supporting paid beer. Free speech becomes all about what we buy & sell. If you want a free society that doesn’t end up in a nickle & dime system of inequality a test should be is life free as in speech & beer? Organized around resource distribution sure, but free of coercion to support paid speech all day (where to be viable in the eyes of society work must earn money). That’s the DNA of our culture. These are not random things. This is what we and Apple talk about all day: financial justification for behavior. That’s a complete corruption of free speech.