[BuzzwordBingo]

Seems more like they built an application which violated the App Store rules from the beginning and now want an exception carved out for them “because Linux” or something. Emulating a whole system that itself follows none of the apple walled garden restrictions is a recipe for failure.

[saagarjha]

The argument is that enforcing App Store Review Guidelines inside a scripting engine is technically very difficult and usually not an issue provided the characteristics we mentioned exist regarding user intent. The other argument is that our scripting environment is substantially identical to all other environments inasmuch as review decisions made against us would apply to them, which leads to semi-absurd rejections.