notarized_off

not you too mozilla...

oh man

this shit is the end of personal computing.

The war on general purpose computing will arrive, finish quickly and be won by the totalitarians.

Normal computers will not be permitted to produce code. All developers will have to submit passport and dna before being allowed to work. Computers capable of producing code will be accounted for centrally, it will be illegal to own one without a licence.

Cash will be done away with by the following means or similar:

https://blogs.imf.org/2019/02/05/cashing-in-how-to-make-nega...

This couldn't happen to any/all software vendors/clients using Apple's notarization service and various app store models, surely!?

Heavens to Murgatroyd.

It's a power grab.

University students and people from countries on the US trade sanctions list will (I predict) not be able to share binaries in a future macOS, for example. It also gives apple a way to ban certain categories of program at the behest of the legal apparatus they have to operate in.

You can turn it off now, but you can't tell me you will always be able to turn it off.

I will abandon macOS when it is financially convenient - I hope you are delighted.