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iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-enough-memory-for-emacs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After the first Hello World application, hacker NerveGas and the people at #iphone-shell have built Apache, Python and other Open Source apps for the iPhone using NightWatch's toolchain. Yes, your iPhone can now be a Web Server and do all sort of 1337 things. This also means that third-party applications for iPhone will happen no matter what. People, iPhone Doom could be just around the corner." It's fairly thin on information but if true, this will lead to good things. Like hopefully permission from apple.

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  1. Con Kolivas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where did the Con Kolivas story go?

    1. Re:Con Kolivas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It got deleted because it was a dupe from yesterday. No cospiracy here ;-)

    2. Re:Con Kolivas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Con Kolivas is just the latest person to be alienated by the GPL v3. In a recent interview with Linux Log he said, "I work on the Linux kernel because I believe in open source and I believe in freedom. The balance between free software that was achieved with the original GPL has been turned on its head."

      The GPL v3 keeps causing more and more problems. At what point do you just scrap it?

    3. Re:Con Kolivas by richie2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That's a very good question. It has been yanked off the firehose page, too.

      Anyway, here's a link to TFA: http://apcmag.com/6735/interview_con_kolivas

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  2. AllOfMp3 pirate heading for Gulag !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Denis Kvasov, the former owner of Russian music site AllofMP3.com, has been charged with violating intellectual property laws in a Moscow court.

    He faces a three year jail sentence and a 15 million rouble (420,000) fine in damages to record companies EMI, Warner, and Universal.

      AllofMP3.com, the UK's second most popular source for music downloads after iTunes, was shut down earlier this month after diplomatic pressure was piled on Russian authorities.

    However, the servers are still accessible through software marketed by Alltunes.com (also owned by MediaServices, the firm behind AllofMP3.com), and a new site - MP3Sparks.com - that is almost identical to AllofMP3.

    AllofMP3 still maintains it didn't do anything illegal. Russian collection societies are allowed to license music to companies without securing permission from the music's copyright holder. The Russian Organisation for Multimedia and Digital Systems (ROMS) got its 15 per cent of the revenue, but Western music bodies insist the collection societies do not represent them.

    Alltunes.com recently won a court case against a Russian agent of Visa over its decision to disconnect the online music stores' payment system.

    In a court ruling in Moscow, Rosbank Visa was found to have acted illegally in cutting off transactions made to the store, according to a statement from Alltunes.

    Visa and Mastercard had blocked payments for Alltunes, which previously operated as AllofMP3, after the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) accused the website of copyright violation. ®

  3. Re:Disappointing by Marcion · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Disappointing because now you have turned an iPhone into a 2G version of the Nokia S60, why not just buy a 3G smartphone to start with and save all the trouble?

    I personally am waiting for the OpenMoko Neo1973, comes with Python and these other things by default or a just few taps away through its package manager.

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  4. Can we mod the original post as funny? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Like hopefully permission from apple.

    LOL