The End of Free Software on Macs?
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The End of Free Software on Macs?
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#2I think Apple has good reason for this $100 said "tax." I would submit to you, that Apple vets apps and develops for good reason. I mean there is a process to maintain developers and apps. It cost money. This is how business works. And their expensive hardware is not a crime against humanity, but it is covering the costs of the engineering put into the software and hardware. It is quality. Now there terms of use are a bit on the deep end, but I drink the cool-aid. I'm sorry he is ending the project, but Apple has a business to run. Businesses are established to make profit. Nothing evil about this. It's not about breaking even, its about the profit. Look at the craziness android is dealing with, it is a mess.
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#3We used spim back in the day at UC Davis in a CS undergrad course for compilers (Java-like to MIPS compiler).
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#4I would be surprised if the author did not have access to an academic developer account paid for by the university.
I am certainly not disagreeing with the author’s point however. Personally I have sold my MacBooks and moved off to Linux / Windows because of the decisions that Apple has made which I feel are not in the interests of the users.
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#5I think Apple has good reason for this $100 said "tax." I would submit to you, that Apple vets apps and develops for good reason. I mean there is a process to maintain developers and apps. It cost money. This is how business works. And their expensive hardware is not a crime against humanity, but it is covering the costs of the engineering put into the software and hardware. It is quality. Now there terms of use are…
> I think Apple has good reason for this $100 said "tax."[...] It's not about breaking even, its about the profit.
No no, stop it. You should know the drill already - it's because of privacy! Everyone in the world knows for sure (or should!) that anything Apple does is for customers privacy. :)
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#6I am not sure if this is a complete explanation of the notarization requirement.
Isn’t this either disable-able or bypassable with admin rights to the machine, similar to existing Gatekeeper? I assume Homebrew, MacPorts, and others will continue to work, just as Gatekeeper does not block them today.
According to https://eclecticlight.co/2019/06/07/notarization-in-mojave-a...
“ If you build your own apps, using Automator, AppleScript, another scripting system or even Xcode, you don’t need to acquire a developer ID, code signing certificate, and start notarizing them unless you provide them to others via the Internet. Catalina still runs apps which haven’t been notarized or even signed, including those built after 1 June 2019. But you may find them more complex to run, and they don’t of course benefit from any of new security protection unless they’re signed and hardened.
Apple has, though, announced that it intends that a future version of macOS (possibly 10.16) will not run unsigned code so readily. How that will affect those who build their own apps isn’t yet clear. Let’s get notarization sorted first.”
Therefore, I assume right-clicking the app and choosing “Open” will still be available to bypass the first-run check for a downloaded software, as it is today.
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#7I think Apple has good reason for this $100 said "tax." I would submit to you, that Apple vets apps and develops for good reason. I mean there is a process to maintain developers and apps. It cost money. This is how business works. And their expensive hardware is not a crime against humanity, but it is covering the costs of the engineering put into the software and hardware. It is quality. Now there terms of use are…
> I think Apple has good reason for this $100 said "tax."[...] It's not about breaking even, its about the profit. No no, stop it. You should know the drill already - it's because of privacy! Everyone in the world knows for sure (or should!) that anything Apple does is for customers privacy. :)
Lol. Thanks for the laugh. I am confused abOut Apple lately.