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iCommune Retools Itself as Standalone Open Source App

Posted by pudge on from the mmmmmm-p3s dept.

Doctor Beavis writes "As noted previously, Apple ordered developer James Speth to return his iTunes software developer kit and to stop distributing the iCommune plug-in for iTunes. Today, CNET has a story with further details and developments. Speth said that he will honor Apple's request to stop distributing his software, but he will build the same features into a standalone application. The next version of iCommune will work with iTunes and potentially other digital music players and will use Rendezvous, Apple's implementation of a protocol for automatic discovery of network-connected devices. Speth also said that the new version will be Open Source under the GPL."

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  1. Good move by intermodal · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    first you raise an attention getting ruckus, then you work on your real app...good way to get the attention of the users you want.

    --
    In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
  2. Is it me, or... by ptrangerv8 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    is apple startign to act a lot like gasp m$/gasp
    I think it's bull... so the MAKER of their greatest feature yet wants to Open Source HIS code... more power to him, unless it breaks his contract
    Of course, then it's hos own dumb@ss fault for voiding a contract to begin with...
    Ok, enough reambling, I'm going to RTFA now...
    ;beer;

  3. There it is. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't forget that Jobs is so far up Disney's ass he only sees daylight when the Mouse yawns, but for some reason Apple will Never, Ever(tm) embrace DRM. And that OSX is open source, except where it isn't.

    I was in the AUG with a guy whose clever-as-hell collection of hacks was absorbed into System 7.0. I don't recall him dancing around yelling about a big check from California.

    Last I heard he wasn't doing Apple stuff anymore, either. Funny that....

  4. Apple is up to its old tricks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Back around 1986-88 Apple was on the top of the heap, and Microsoft was sucking wind flogging Win1 and 2.

    Then Apple started suing developers and demanding huge up front royalties for the privilege of developing on the Apple stuff.

    Guess what? Most of them went over to MS, and the rest is sales figures.

    Jobbed by the Steve.