The article is correct. Rene complained to Apple that this VLC GPL app should not be on the App Store because of the GPL terms.
So Apple removed it. Adding drama or feelings is beside the point. Rene is a child if he thinks he's going to change anything with this act. If he wouldn't have said anything, Apple wouldn't have cared. It's not Apple's job to make sure the GPL is followed, just the App Store terms.
It's funny to read about people like Rene trying to 'change' Apple. If you don't like it, find another device and App Store platform for your highly restrictive GPL apps.
This is a great example of how to consume the Twitter Firehouse data stream using C# and the .NET Framework. I like how it decouples the problems into data acquisition and data processing solutions. Good example code. Thanks for sharing!
Interesting opinion, but I do not agree with you. Would you like to try again, or - staying in context - will you just fuck the next comment up as well?
Correction: the journalists who uncover the information that other people are looking for are doing their job. The journalists who hide the information they find, for whatever reason, are not doing the job the customers of the paper are expecting. Journalists can do their job or not, that is correct. Ethics has nothing to do with it. You are thinking of 'fear' of exposing the truth, or 'revenge' for uncovering the truth. Journalists who cannot deal with the truth are bad journalists.
There was no loss when bits are copied, but because the downloader has no rights to the media, it is piracy.
There was no lost sales because the fact remains: the user wants a copy of the media or content without paying. To suggest that they would pay in some alternate universe is fantasy.
I switched back to http://retro.grooveshark.com It's more refined, runs fine on Windows, and it has more features. The Javascript version is too chunky for my taste. I can't see the song titles, overlays don't work, I'm not getting tips, etc.
I think that there is a Copyright Troll, and we should ignore them. They're getting upset because they don't like that we can hear the music first before we buy it.
So Apple removed it. Adding drama or feelings is beside the point. Rene is a child if he thinks he's going to change anything with this act. If he wouldn't have said anything, Apple wouldn't have cared. It's not Apple's job to make sure the GPL is followed, just the App Store terms.
It's funny to read about people like Rene trying to 'change' Apple. If you don't like it, find another device and App Store platform for your highly restrictive GPL apps.