[OSX-Users] Re: Apple purging GPL?

[Steve Harris]

On 2012-08-30, at 09:00, Chris Andrews wrote:
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> On 30 Aug 2012, at 08:13, Luke Teacy <wtlt at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Only danger is, what else does it allow them to do? As much as I love my iOS devices, I'm in no hurray to see it running on my Mac - at least not in a way that prevents me bringing up a bash shell and doing most of the things I can do on Linux.
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> Starting from nothing and making a closed platform is a lot easier than taking an open platform and making it closed. Jailing OS X a la iOS is going to be almost impossible without some kind of get-out for developers, power users and people who like emacs.

I think the most likely outcome would be that by default it's locked down à la iOS, but if you click the "power user" button you can run arbitrary code.

It kind of rubs me up the wrong way, but it would probably be for the best - people like my Dad might finally stop installing random crap software they find lying about and binning PCs every year because they're crammed with malware.

- Steve