{"id":5996,"date":"2011-05-20T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2011-05-20T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:03:10","slug":"eff-wants-apple-to-defend-its-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/05\/20\/eff-wants-apple-to-defend-its-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF Wants Apple To Defend Its Developers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is weighing in on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodsys.com\/blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lodsys&#8217;s patent threat<\/a> against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2011\/05\/13\/lodsys-threatens-to-sue-app-store-developers-over-purchase-links\/\" target=\"_blank\">iOS Developers<\/a>. EFF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/05\/apple-should-stand-up\" target=\"_blank\">wants Apple to defend its Developers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lodsys claims that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodsys.com\/1\/post\/2011\/05\/q-lodsys-is-trying-to-force-apple-to-take-a-license-by-pressuring-ios-developers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple is licensed<\/a> to use Lodsys&#8217; patents, even though there&#8217;s no detailed explanation of the licensing. At this moment Apple is keeping the silence. Lodsys&#8217; threat against iOS Developers will ultimately hurt iOS App ecosystem if Apple chose to do nothing. Developers can opt to forgo in-app purchasing and upgrades; effectively taking one revenue-generating feature for Developers and Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, it&#8217;s your turn!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lodsys are Losers\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lodsys-are-losers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is weighing in on Lodsys&#8217;s patent threat against iOS Developers. EFF wants Apple to defend its Developers. Lodsys claims that Apple is licensed to use Lodsys&#8217; patents, even though there&#8217;s no detailed explanation of the licensing. At this moment Apple is keeping the silence. Lodsys&#8217; threat against iOS Developers will ultimately &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/05\/20\/eff-wants-apple-to-defend-its-developers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EFF Wants Apple To Defend Its Developers.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[403,404,1005,933,1831,1842,1888,2009,2272,2511,936],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-eff","tag-ios","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-lodsys","tag-media","tag-patent","tag-resources","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1yI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}