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EFF: Apple's Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App For iOS

schwit1 writes The EFF launched a new app that will make it easier for people to take action on digital rights issues using their phone. The app allows folks to connect to their action center quickly and easily, using a variety of mobile devices. Sadly, though, they had to leave out Apple devices and the folks who use them. Why? Because they could not agree to the terms in Apple's Developer Agreement and Apple's DRM requirements.

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  1. Principles vs Practicality by danaris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, I'm sorry for the EFF, then, but everyone knows what the terms are to get an app in the iOS App Store.

    This sounds, to me, like the EFF allowing slavish adherence to their principles to prevent them from doing something that might actually help real people in the real world advance those principles in meaningful ways.

    Either that, or they just realized they could use it as a publicity stunt.

    Dan Aris

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  2. Re:Nothing of value was lost, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had to switch from Linux back to Windows because I couldn't bear the spam.