Apple Smacks Down iCommune

flipsidejones writes "Looks like Apple has killed iCommune. iCommune, as mentioned previously, allows users to share music libraries across a network from within iTunes. It seems the license for the iTunes plugin API does not allow for software-based plugins (only hardware: MP3 players, etc). Apple issued a 'Notice of Breach and Termination of License' to iCommune, who have since pulled the download. Something tells me that they won't be putting it back up anytime soon. Every time I forget about Mac OS X being proprietary, Apple does something to remind me." Well, in fairness, this could happen even if Mac OS X itself weren't proprietary, as iTunes still could be. For that matter, iCommune still is, too. Hm, none of that makes me feel any better ...

Comments

quit bitching

[NerdSlayer]

"Every time I forget about Mac OS X being proprietary, Apple does something to remind me."

I took a nice new car that I saw at the dealership down the block, and the bastards called the police on me.

Everytime I forget that certain goods and services cost money, Lexus does something to remind me. Isn't this America? Can't I have everything for free?! The terrorists have already won.

Re:iCommunista

[MouseR]

I Agree.

Apple has a legal right to do this

[Sanity]

Apple has every legal right to do this, as it is a provision of the license which iCommune signed when they clicked through the iTunes license agreement, and really it is for our own benefit - since Apple (unlike, say, Microsoft) has its users best interests at heart - you can tell by the warm fuzzy widgets on the OSX user interface.

Now if Microsoft had done this, with their cold unfriendly pointy user interfaces, that would be a sin worthy of no less than torture and death for Gates and all his ilk.

Those who complain that the Slashdot editors and much of the readership have a double standard where Apple and Microsoft are concerned are clearly missing one extremely important fact:

Apple: Warm and fuzzy
Microsoft: Cold and pointy

Need I say more?

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

They're a company that sells stuff and makes money just like any other.

You are *so* right! I mean, all companies sell something, so they're all the same. Microsoft gets the Borg icon, but AMD and Apple don't. What's the sense in that? I mean, it's not like Microsoft has done anything to differentiate themselves from every other company in the computer market. It's not like they're an aknowledged monopoly that is constantly being sued for anti-competitive practices. Nah, they're just like everyone else

And Apple. Those fuckers have never given anything back to the *NIX community (oops, just ignore their contributions to KHTML, and that Darwin business...).

Re:What?

[pudge]

Yeah, Apple killing a new product a lot of people were interested in isn't news. What was I thinking?

Gasp! The light dawns.

[Anonymous Coward]

Congratulations, you've taken your first step into a larger world.

Now write "iCommune" on a thick rubber band and wear it around your wrist. Whenever the urge to say "Apple will never knuckle under to DRM" comes over you, draw back the rubber band four or five inches and give yourself a good smack.

What kind of Kool-Aid do Apple users like best?

[DesScorp]

As I read through the threads in this story, I kept noticing that the Apple users stood out from the rest, and that the vast majority seemed to just nod and go "MmmHmmm, good job Steve....whatever you say Steve.....you're right Steve....".

Maybe there's something to this Apple "cult" thing.

Re:Wow

[The Bungi]

I did, but they discontinued the Turd report *grin*

WindowShade and iTunes

[Anonymous Coward]

the same way they killed WindowShade (incorporated into System 7)

And then removed it from Mac OS X, for no apparent reason. Fortunately, there's a (shareware) WindowShade X. So if they add it back to Mac OS X 10.3, I'll have paid for window-shading functionality only ... 4 times. I can't wait!

Solution

[m0rph3us0]

iCommune solution.
wget http://www.xmms.org/xmmstarball.tar.gz
tar zvxf xmmstarball.tar.gz ./configure
make
make test
make install

Seems kinda stupid...

[Jeedo]

...that although trying to kill off iCommune Apple is still hosting it:

This just made my day