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Apple is pushing ahead with a lawsuit against Corellium, in what is being labelled as a move to end jailbreaking.
The tech giant began its legal battle in August, claiming the firm profits from "perfect replicas" of iOS.
Apple has now amended its lawsuit, alleging copyright infringement.
Corellium's CEO responded in an open letter, insisting developers and jailbreakers should be "concerned" by the move.
[...] Corellium's chief executive, Amanda Gorton, issued a statement on Sunday in response to Apple's latest claims of copyright infringement.
She criticised Apple's targeting of the jailbreaking community, and suggested the company has failed to acknowledge that it has directly benefited from users of its platform in the past.
"Apple is asserting that anyone who provides a tool that allows other people to jailbreak, and anyone who assists in creating such a tool, is violating the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)," said Ms Gorton.
"They have directly benefited from the jailbreak community in a number of ways. Many of the features of iOS originally appeared as jailbreak tweaks and were copied by Apple."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @02:34PM
Apple's business plan was to make good stuff that folks liked.
That includes actual security, not the illusion of security.
That's really hard, so it is good for Apple for folks to find their bugs.
That's why there are bug bounty programs.
This seems kind of a reverse bug bounty.
As in don't do good and we won't sue you.
Hope it works for them, but it seems likely to need a few tweaks.
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