{"id":4399,"date":"2012-02-23T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:56:55","slug":"skim-knockoffs-on-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/skim-knockoffs-on-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Skim Knockoff(s) on the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michael-mccracken.net\/2012\/02\/skim-knockoffs-on-the-mac-app-store\/\">Michael McCracken<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/michael-mccracken.net\/2012\/02\/skim-knockoffs-on-the-mac-app-store\/\"><p>The app listed for sale for $29 on the store as &ldquo;PDF Reader&rdquo; is actually our free and open source Skim app, although no mention of the Skim Sourceforge project is made in the description, and the support link just goes to a livejournal post where the Skim web page ad copy has been pasted. There is also a $19 app called &ldquo;PDF Expert&rdquo; that appears to be another copy. That one even went ahead and used Adobe&rsquo;s Acrobat trademark in their icon!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skim-app.sourceforge.net\">Skim&rsquo;s<\/a> BSD license allows others to use the code, but not without attribution. The Skim developers have not had any luck getting Apple to do something about this.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael McCracken: The app listed for sale for $29 on the store as &ldquo;PDF Reader&rdquo; is actually our free and open source Skim app, although no mention of the Skim Sourceforge project is made in the description, and the support link just goes to a livejournal post where the Skim web page ad copy has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4400,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}