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[John Baab]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
>
> That's how it came across to me.
>
> And just to be clear, the unfortunate reality of dealing with the legacy of
> "Saint Jobs" (as some people (not me) seem to think of him) is :
> 1) The program could not be released under GPL if he wanted to, GPL is
> fundamentally incompatible with the closed crippleware used on iphone OS
> stuff. The alternative would be to release it via Cydia (or similar) which
> then severely restricts your user base.
> 2) It costs real cash to be able to do this. Not a lot, and yes I realise
> that other developers have to buy their machines etc, but here there is an
> explicit cash expenditure to a third party before they'll allow your
> application in the store (even if you give it away free). If I remember the
> costs correctly, he'll need to sell 30 to 40 copies before he'll have
> covered that cost.
>

If only there was another platform choice, where you can GPL your
code, and don't have to pay an extortion fee to run your own code on
your own hardware...