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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 ...
iCarramba!
Here in Germany, the color magenta is a registered trademark of this company
If Apple was a $300B software giant, they'd be as bad or worse than Microsoft is. They're an amazing example of all the things that are disgusting in the computer and software industry. Rampant litigation, weak patents, disdain towards users. A+, A+, A+. It's nice to know that if they ever did supplant Microsoft, they'd be able to do it so well we wouldn't even know the difference.
Slightly offtopic but should I (if I am a writer of GNU software) send such notice to the
commercial exploiters of my program/library
that do it without giving out the source code?
How should it look like?
If you want to add editorial content to the stories, don't sell yourself as a news site.
Why not post the story, then grab the first post?
Mozilla is too complex for most users. Phoenix is the only hope for unseating Internet Explorer on Windows.
I hope the Phoenix team creates a Mail and Address Book client to go along with it. Mozilla Calendar is already very nice. It looks like it is based off of iCal.
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