Let me get this right. Soon, users won't be free to get a copy of a Free Software Foundation application for their iPhones because rules developed a decade and more ago for distributing software to desktop computers are being violated, rules that seem to assume that every iPhone user is ready, willing and able to recode and branch their own version of VLC.
Like Black and Ian before me, I suspect the Free Software Foundation needs to tweak their policies for apps running on mobile devices. I may get mad if my iMac crashes and I have to reboot, or even use my laptop until I can fix the problem. But I simply can't afford to have my iPhone crashing, shutting off all phone contact with the world.
In short, an iPhone isn't a desktop computer and apps for it shouldn't be forced to play by the same rules. The FSF rules need to bend a bit to take into account that difference.
Post originale: http://gigaom.com/apple/vlc-on-thin-ice-at-the-app-store/#comment-495601
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