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Well, all I can say is “good luck”, you have expressed limited understanding of how software licensing and related contract law works in Europe or the USA. Fo
by parasubvert 6y ago
Well, all I can say is “good luck”, you have expressed limited understanding of how software licensing and related contract law works in Europe or the USA.
For example there is no first sale doctrine in software as you never bought the software, you an acquired a license. “redistribution of software” is forbidden called “software piracy” and usually against any commercial software license agreement. Free software and copyleft were created as an alternative to this.
People can do what they want with the HW, and jailbreak the SW (which runs afoul of the iOS EULA and the DMCA in the USA but this isn’t enforced heavily by Apple).... but Apple has no legal obligation to make it easy for 3rd party OSes to run on the HW, or 3rd party app stores.
There has been a 3rd party App Store on iPhone for 12+ years (Cydia) but the Jailbreak dance made it hard to gain mainstream attention.