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Why aren't some apps distributed by ad-hoc, source sharing?

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scootermaster

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So let me pose a hypothetical scenario: Say I made an app that apple would hate, or something that obviously wouldn't make it through the app store. What's to stop me from distributing it, ad-hoc style to 100 of my friends. But then also giving the source away, along with instructions for how to download the SDK, thereby allowing anyone else with an Intel mac the ability to [with a little work] install it, and distribute it to 100 of their friends.

I'm wondering why, for example, the Netshare people don't do this. I mean, they're sorta high profile so maybe legally for them it's a bad idea. But what's to stop people who write, say, jailbreak apps (NES emulators, anyone?) from distributing their apps like this?
 
Dev iPhones don't work as phones anymore once they're made into development devices. Plus, it's really hard to get into the full dev program.
 
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