Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS
by pmontra on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:36AM
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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
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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?
Re:Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS
by pmontra on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:06AM
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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.