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A post on a mailing list from someone who emailed "Steve" and got some one-liner reply does not strike me as an official announcement from Apple, no matter how much people enjoy saying "ooh, I mailed Steve and he replied, I'm sure this matter is over and done with now"

There are way too many companies and users affected, for this to be resolved via some one liner reply to some guy on a weekend. A bit obvious, eh?

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I'm sure whatever was emailed back is the current 'official line' of the company. They may change that if there's enough developer push-back, but unless you're trying to claim that Steve (or an underling) responded with something that isn't 'towing the company line,' then this should be pretty inline with the message that Apple wants to send. Just because it didn't go through some official PR channel means nothing.

We really need them to specify for each tool that we ask Yes/No - not to just refer us to the TOS.

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