After promising they would axe the beyond-draconian NDA preventing developers from discussing the details of their own applications, Apple has followed through and released a revise that allows the devs to share, on Apple’s new developer forums or elsewhere. It accompanies beta 2 of the version 2.2 software, and also clears the way for devs to open-source their apps without fear of legal action or banishment, should they so choose. Certainly a move in the right direction for Apple’s baffling iPhone development strategies thus far. [iPhone Developer Agreement - PDF]
After much pressure, Apple has decided that they have been stupid for a long enough time and have dropped their much much-criticised Non Disclosure Agreement from released iPhone software. According to the company, the NDA was an unnecessary obstacle for developers:
As we covered in our case for still needing the iPhone app black market, developers are gagged by a non-disclosure agreement that keeps them from talking about actually programming the iPhone with anybody, even though sharing info would help app development. Surprise, developers don’t like that. So now we have Fucking NDA, which aggregates their rants and musings, turning them into a single stream of angst about, well, that fucking NDA. Here’s a gem collected from Twitterific’s Craig Hockenberry:
