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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by wincy on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:46PM (#25606882)
I know a very intelligent software engineer who told me he had never used Exercism (despite him using other similar tools) simply because he’s a practicing Catholic and thought the name to be in poor taste. You definitely alienate people at the fringes by naming things something even slightly risqué.
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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by webmobdev on Friday January 01, 2021 @04:16PM (#25607252)
And do you really want Apple to be the arbitrator of such silly things?
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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by canjobear on Friday January 01, 2021 @04:57PM (#25607618)
For their own app store, of course.
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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by izacus on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:27PM (#25607890)
Even when their AppStore is mandaded to all your hardware by DRM with you not having any choice of opting out? You want all your possible business speech, products and content you consume dictated by a corporate decree with no accountability?
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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by webmobdev on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:52PM (#25608124)
The app store is a closed environment where they can dictate some terms. But don't forget that the developers PAY THEM to use it, and as such their terms cannot trump the consumer laws that exist to protect against abuse.

(By the way, "my shop, my terms" have already faced legal scrutiny, some of which were found to be illegal - popular judgements include that shops cannot refuse to serve people of colour or gays.)

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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by colejohnson66 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:28PM (#25616173)
Those “popular judgements” were because the laws on discrimination say so. There’s no law saying a store has to sell what they don’t want to. If Target (for example) decides to stop selling Pampers because they don’t like the name (for whatever reason), that’s their choice.
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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by mbreese on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:03PM (#25607678)
You could argue that this is also why we now have system services instead of daemons.
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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by tsm_sf on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:45PM (#25608063)
There are a surprising number of Christians in CS, but they're generally of the more contemplative kind. I definitely remember people being uncomfortable with that but big enough to not make much of a fuss about it.

I'm guessing it's been slowly changed by people big enough to realize the name doesn't matter.

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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by yongjik on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:59PM (#25608676)
Twenty-something years ago, I've seen some Christians legit freaking out on Netscape's Book of Mozilla[1] easter egg.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla

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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by saagarjha on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:29PM (#25608460)
/Library/LaunchDaemons disagrees ;)
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