In what may be the greatest blow to my interest in anything Apple, my favorite open source program has been denied a place in the new apps store. This shortly after the same application denied entry into the iPhone's app store. This is a real failure for Apple, who started with an open operating system and has progressively become more and more closed and restrictive. Given the wide variety of open-licensed software that won't be ported to the iPhone, this is unfortunate for Apple and its users.
Meanwhile, plenty of GPL'd and other open source software is available for Android, whose OS is based on openly licensed Linux software.
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