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I guess someone didn't read the actual TOS change:

"Update to 10.8.7 to prohibit charging fees in the Store for open-source or other software that is generally available for free and restrict irrationally high pricing."

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So are they preventing selling of open source software or restricting high pricing?

Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.

It sounds to me like they don't want people repacking open source software into spammy trash apps and charging for them. Like, anybody could take the VLC source code and put a VLC app in the store and sell it for $5.00. This actually did happen in the early days of the Microsoft App store. It was full of trash apps.

What if it's the developers themselves who put their app on the store and charge a small fee for it, like krita?

https://twitter.com/gisardo/status/1544741955145502724

Thanks for this link. Yeah my thinking was some OSS devs might want to make their app open source but sell it on the stores to help fund their efforts. So a blanket ban on selling OSS sounds wrong.

But hopefully the policy gets sorted to rid bad actors and allow people to find their efforts.

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