ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps. • Hacker News Board

Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.

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Post by TheAmazingIdiot » Tue, May 31, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

zodttd wrote: post #49

TheAmazingIdiot wrote: post #42

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It almost sounds like Google's way of being unreachable, and all mighty. "You, the peasant, are allowed to work in Our field". I do hope you get some sort of answers. I loved the stuff you made, and ended up playing Chrono Trigger with a wiimote on the iphone (and getting crazy looks at that).

I really don't like the fact there is zero developer support for Market given the fact it's self-regulated. The game company / Google partner could easily contact them to remove my app. Fair enough. But how do I contact a human at Google's Android Market? Haven't figured that out yet.

"But how do I contact a human at Google..."

Full stop. Sorry for being so trite, but you don't. Doesn't matter if you have millions in ad revenue or whatnot. Lack of customer service is one of the biggest reasons from staying away from google offerings.

Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.

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Post by Aissen » Wed, Jun 01, 2011, 5:28 PM UTC

zodttd wrote: post #47

Aissen wrote: post #43

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Indeed, this is a hobbyist doing tens of programmers' job in his free time (this is a compliment) aka a hacker . All these problems you describe remind me of most GPL violations: people not caring much where code comes from (gotta prototype fast), not using source management for their internal process, and then finishing a huge pile of code with no traceability whatsoever with regards to what come from where and whom…

Your assessment is fairly accurate. Though I consulted with others over GPLv2 and its usage of libraries. One person consulted with was the author of this software. The UI is in Java and is part of a closed source project which I have been honoring. The library is called by the JNI. It is not linked statically. If you have more to say on the usage of libraries in GPLv2, please share.

Agreed, dynamic linking of libraries is a relatively grey area with lots of diverging point of views. This Wikipedia article cites them all, and gives all the necessary references : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Link...

Re: ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.

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Post by gcb » Fri, Jun 03, 2011, 5:30 AM UTC

zodttd wrote: post #37

gcb wrote: post #30

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So, which was the explicit reason to take it down? Understand it's not license violation, i actually read TFA :) I'm curious.

Will gladly let you know, but I'm not following. Take what down exactly? Thanks for reading TFA. :)

the emulators from the market