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Also you're an open source and free project? If you want donations we're going to need a cut of that. Doesn't matter that you're providing our OS with functionality (for free) that we can't or won't create on our own.



Is this true? That can't be legal.


Yes, he says it right in the post. They had a donation link in the about section that Apple forced them to remove because the payments weren't going through the app store payment system where they get a cut.


It might be worth appealing that rule by claiming that the payment is a donation and optional.


That would be an instance of very talented developers sinking even more of their time into Apple's despicable platform.


There's a lot of very undespicable people using the platform, unfortunately…


I would say not. Supporting a tyrant and a fascist by giving them your money is also despicable.

If you buy your stuff used that's fine IMO.




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