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iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced
recoiledsnake writes "The author of iPhone prototyping tool Briefs has decided to open source it after the App store submission has been in limbo for over three months. The app had got into trouble for what Apple believes is being able to run interpreted code, though the author denies it, saying all the compiling happens on the Mac. While Rob stays civil, his co-worker blasts Apple for not even rejecting the app. Three months is nothing compared to Google Voice for the iPhone though, which is still being studied further by Apple after more than a year."
An offtopic thought: given the recent (re?)surge of seemingly organized trolls here, mod points allocated by the automated system are going to waste, both from the karma-whoring trolls to mod up their own posts and from the people in the audience/freakshow modding them down. I have come across recent discussions in the usual places regarding playing the Slashdot moderation system, so I think the question must be asked: how many points wasted would be needed to destabilize the system by impoverishing it? If the number of posts and moderations increase and remain stable over a period of time, malicious or not, will the system compensate?
Emotions! In your brain!
I never trust anyone after they've had their mind bugled. Yeah, I've heard that you can be rehabilitated - but, I just won't ever trust you again. Call me a bugle bigot, it won't bother me. I don't HAVE to be politically correct. I've heard that mind bugling is the gateway to kiddie diddling - not sure if I believe it or not. It sure makes a guy think though. Should we have a no bugling zone around our schools?
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br