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I wanted to say that your answer really doesn't address what the parent was saying, but I see your point now... Integral part of GPL is the ability for users t

by annnnd 13y ago

I wanted to say that your answer really doesn't address what the parent was saying, but I see your point now... Integral part of GPL is the ability for users to change their software, and Apple doesn't allow that (both for the reasons you stated and because... well, a work "monopoly" comes to mind ;). Nicely put.

sambeau 13y ago
Ha. Yes, maybe I went slightly tangential due to my weekend experience but I think the core is relevant: Some geeks accuse the App Store of eroding our freedoms (and the freedom of free software). I say that truly free software is a luxury that we geeks afford ourselves but make no real effort to share with the less-technical while we intellectually discount the mountainous problem of malicious software that makes non-geeks lives' a misery. It is the latter that erodes the freedoms our our software not the the App Store. Weight & measures, environmental health departments, competition commissions, ombudsmen.. etc. all erode some freedoms while protecting others. This is, sadly, a necessary trade-off.
- sambeau 13y ago
  Re-reading this thread it looks like I had originally meant to reply to the comment further down - this one: The App Store is openly hostile to freedom, let alone FOSS.