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Old 01-10-2011, 03:55 PM   #2126
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Originally Posted by Russic View Post
Kind of an odd story as to why it was taken off (a complaint from a Nokia employee):http://www.cultofmac.com/vlc-app-pul...-crusade/76340
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Writing with considerable smugness, Denis-Courmont writes:

“At last, Apple has removed VLC media player from its application store. Thus the incompatibility between the GNU General Public License and the AppStore terms of use is resolved – the hard way. This end should not have come to a surprise to anyone, given the precedents.”

He’s right, of course, but he’s also mistaking the letter of the GPL for the spirit of the GPL, all as part of what appears to be some sort of knee-jerk anti-Apple crusade. That he works for Nokia makes this all just more suspect.
Wow... and people call Apple users d-bags.
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