Apple is abusive. long words, conversations.
I bought a device but do not control it - it's not legal or it shouldn't be.
Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
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#792Earlier quoted context omitted.
He has expressed skepticism that "willing participation" in pedophilia harms children. And given a couple of bizarre quotes on bestiality (essentially, "if the animal initiates it then what's the problem?"). More recently, he was pushed out of MIT and the FSF last year for questioning whether one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims was truly a victim or not. He prefers Emacs over Vim. There are probably other examples, but…
> questioning whether one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims was truly a victim or not. I’ve never really been much of an RMS fan beyond admiration for what he has done for free software, but this is not what he said, at least according to his words as quoted in the post that initiated his cancellation[1]. I’ve pasted it from that post below [2]. The author of that post quoted this and then somehow inferred this [3]. How s…
I'm an RMS fan overall & think he's been fairly prophetic over the years even and respect him for sticking to his Free Software guns even when his views were unpopular, but these comments of his regarding the Epstein case were stupid. Yes, RMS is correct, the term "sexual assault" is perhaps too vague in this case–the legal term for sex with an underage person is "rape."
The context also make his comments strain credulity beyond the breaking point. "We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing." So this 73 year old man has a 17 year old approach him for sex on one of his patron's famous young-girl-harem flights, and I'm to understand that Minsky can't apply his AI-pioneering genius to figure out what's going on? Like, am I supposed to believe that he thought this girl young enough to be his granddaughter was just attracted to his magnetic personality? Give me a break.
> Minsky may not have known
Can you really look me in the screen and tell me you believe that? Again I say: give me a break.
I think it's better to call a spade a shovel here and concede that Minsky knew what he was doing. The fact is Stallman probably _didn't_ consider Minksy to have done anything wrong, and that's why he spoke up, and he was "cancelled" because it was pretty plain to everyone else that it _was_ wrong.
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They are also being sued by Epic. Would you keep doing business with a company suing you?
You shouldn't require a business relationship in order to publish software on a general purpose computing platform. macOS was always a general purpose computing platform, anyone could publish software for it. iOS has not been seen as a general purpose computing platform, merely "a phone", and hence Apple's tight control has been seen as justifiable. Apple added notarization of software to macOS last year, and in resp…
Yep. This action ensures my next computer purchase won’t be a Mac. Time to learn to love a Linux distro.
If Apple retaliated against their publishing on iOS that would be one thing. Taking away their ability to notarize macOS software is my line in the sand.
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That's what they want you to think. Which is why they say it. Sounds better than "Tim made the order to retaliate, sayonara"
Given that there are lawsuits in place pretty sure they aren't going to lie about it. Question is how serious the multiple infractions are.
> Given that there are lawsuits in place pretty sure they aren't going to lie about it
They probably won’t lie in court or in depositions, but the same assumptions shouldn’t be made about all statements.
Re: Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
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You need to re-sign it frequently because the certificate is only short-lived, and I think there are difficulties in signing existing binaries that make it mostly only useful for things you can distribute the source for. It's not really an alternative to an app store. There are also enterprise signing certificates for distributing custom apps within large companies without these restrictions, along with cases in the…
Re-signing iOS binaries is tedious, but ultimately scriptable (including creating certificates, provisioning profiles, etc.). Android’s sideloading is significantly easier, and it still hasn’t led to anyone competing with their App Store.
>still hasn’t led to anyone competing with their App Store.
F-Droid.org?
Re: Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
#796From Epic's filing, here is an excerpt from Apple's notice listing the Developer Program features that Epic will lose access to when its membership is terminated: - All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools - Pre-release versions of iOS, iPad OS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS - Pre-release versions of beta tools such as Reality Composer, Create ML, Apple Configurator, etc. - Notarization service for macOS apps - App…
Apple's 30% cut is not based on those other services (the services related to Mac, and the "services" involved in collaborating to make Apple devices more friendly to games). The 30% cut only applies to Fortnite. Epic would not owe Apple more than a few hundred bucks for all the rest, because Apple is doing that work to benefit themselves.
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Source available, not open source.
Ok, but is the general point accurate?
No. You would be free to compile your copy of the Unreal Engine, but without the ability to use Apple development software, it would be impossible for Epic to continue developing the engine on Mac. The end result is that the engine would not continue to develop on Mac, and would eventually likely stop functioning.
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His public image has been degraded from toe-jam eating and supposedly outrageous riders for speaking engagements (which I think everything in was pretty level headed but some people think it was 'nuts')
For anyone who hasn't read the rider: https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt
> "GNU" is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like "grew" but with n instead of r.
TIL I learned "GNU" is somehow pronounced with one syllable ("gnew") and not two ("guh-noo"). (I know lowercase "gnu" is pronounced with one syllable.)
Re: Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
#799To bring up unfair issue, epic must first raise the issue legally, fight it in court.. NOT breach TOS first then claim got abused.
Re: Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
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Imagine the wild west it would be if every app could redirect payment info to what ever their sketchy payment processor was. I shudder at the thought. I very much categorize Epic's actions in the "unsafe" basket.
How would that be any different than general Internet e-commerce, where there is no landlord forcing everyone to use its services? It wouldn't, and nothing disastrous would happen.
It would be the same as browser based e-commerce: stolen credit card information, fraud transactions, leaks of credit card information due to non existing security
This is exactly what apple tried to prevent (snd is earning a shit ton money with it): manual credit card entry because except the big ones almost no one would be safe