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FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go 482

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @04:04PM from the y'know-fellas-the-license dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Free Software Foundation has discovered that an application currently distributed in Apple's App Store is a port of GNU Go. This makes it a GPL violation, because Apple controls distribution of all such programs through the iTunes Store Terms of Service, which is incompatible with section 6 of the GPLv2. It's an unusual enforcement action, though, because they don't want Apple to just make the app disappear, they want Apple to grant its users the full freedoms offered by the GPL. Accordingly, they haven't sued or sent any legal threats and are instead in talks with Apple about how they can offer their users the GPLed software legally, which is difficult because it's not possible to grant users all the freedoms they're entitled to and still comply with Apple's restrictive licensing terms."

Comment The FCC needs to hear from you (Score 1) 232

by mbishop on Thursday May 06, 2010 @01:05AM (#32108188) Attached to: FCC To Make Move On Net Neutrality

A lot of you have very good arguments for this. I encourage you to take the same few seconds it takes you to post here, and send an email to the FCC Chairman himself. Please be understandable and civil. It helps their cause when they hear a lot of support.

http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/genachowski/mail.html

Comment Beautiful, fragile objects (Score 1) 375

by mbishop on Wednesday August 09, 2006 @08:11PM (#15877643) Attached to: Apple's Growing Pains

I've had numerous problems with my PowerBook and 2 of my friends had problems requiring them to take their Powerbook to the Apple store. Those same 2 friends had their iPods die on them. It's not them or me, I think it is more a trend of Apple to push the scale from robust heavy duty ugly hardware, toward pretty, fragile hardware.

Within a week of buying my AlBook, the corner was dented by a cab driver who dropped my bag 3 feet to the street. That also pushed metal in the hinge which made the luscious (but thin) screen not want to stay shut, even though the elegant (but non-fault-tolerant) magentic hook tried its best to hold onto the screen.

Because all the parts, motherboard, everything is housed in that aluminum core, it cannot be repaired, only replaced.

Don't get me wrong, the AlBook is GORGEOUS as is all Apple hardware, but to me, a portable needs to be RESILIENT. These computers are taken everywhere, put on countertops, are spilled on, and fall off chairs.

For that reason, a MacBook is my next purchase. I'd much rather have a plastic case that's strong than a peautiful metal one that's fragile.

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