I can not condone Apple’s non free software, but I can understand them minding the store by removing this particular app. Apple’s pruning of applications from the store has more in common with GNU/Linux application choice by distributions than it does with anti-competitive behavior. This can be done for quality control and ethical considerations and should not be compared to technical sabotage as practiced by Microsoft. It is only when Apple gets in the way of users running software of their choice by other means that people should have a problem. There is plenty of room for improvement for Apple when it comes to cooperating with free software developers and users but their app store is not the place to push for it. The place to push is in licensing, patents and hardware specifications. Software freedom is always limited on a non free platform, even when there are means to get various commercial applications. Apple would do well to have a larger community around their interesting hardware and they can get it without compromising their controlled environment. All they have to do is cooperate and give people who want it a clearly defined way out of the Apple environment.