SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a new app that will make it easier for people to take action on digital rights issues using their phone. The app allows folks to connect to their action center quickly and easily, using a variety of mobile devices. Sadly, though, they had to leave out Apple devices and the folks who use them.
Why? "Because we could not agree to the outrageous terms in Apple’s Developer Agreement and Apple’s DRM requirements. As we have been saying for years now, the Developer Agreement is bad for developers and users alike."
The EFF has a petition to try to get Apple to change their abusive and anti-competitive policies. The EFF does a lot of good work defending everyone's rights and freedoms online. Consider signing it. Note: you can sign on any browser, including mobile browsers on an iPhone
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday January 09 2015, @05:10PM
Don't assume that it necessarily is legal unless they've used a court to enforce it.Companies claim all sorts of illegal things in their contracts, and the only penalty seems to be that the courts won't enforce those particular provisions. They don't even look over the rest of the terms and say "And this one and that one are also illegal to enforce.". Much less the problem that different courts may well decide differently, depending on the judges and the lawyers.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.