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Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS by pmontra on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:26AM (#24342058)
So let's Apple port, build and distribute open source for MacOS. I have no problem with that. Yet I bet it would cost Apple more than the money they do from the license they sell to OS developers.
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Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:31AM (#24342128)
But they're not going to do that for your project, only the ones they actually care about. In fact they already do this. Your macOS comes with bash (the old one because they don't like the new license) and a slew of other open source software. The whole thing is built on top of BSD. So they take what they want and then make you pay them for anything else.
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Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS by pmontra on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:36AM (#24342207)
No problem with MacOS having only the open source programs Apple care about. In that scenario if Apple want that developers keep buying their hardware they'll have care about a lot of software or hope that everybody will be happy to work in a Linux VM, possibly with a Linux desktop. Imagine a Mac with no docker, no GNU userland and dev tools (if they're a thing on MacOS), no vim, no Node, no Python, etc.
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Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:43AM (#24342299)
How is that supposed to help all the small time developers that are trying to get started on a side project and want to distribute it to their 200 existing customers who Apple doesn't care about at all?
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Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS by pmontra on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:06AM (#24342582)
They're not the developers I was thinking about. I was thinking about the kind of open source projects that are installed by 100k-100M people.

Misunderstanding sorted out, let's see. If I wanted to reach 200 customers on MacOS (real or leads) probably I can invest 0.5 USD per customer and see if I end up making some money because one of them hires me to do anything.

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