[OSX-Users] Re: Apple purging GPL?

[Christopher Gutteridge]

but it could lead quite quickly to a situation where everyone wanting to 
release software for OSX has to give Apple a cut and let them have power 
of veto. Maybe I won't be allowed VLC anymore because it competes with 
itunes...

On 30/08/2012 10:06, Steve Harris wrote:
> On 2012-08-30, at 09:00, Chris Andrews wrote:
>> On 30 Aug 2012, at 08:13, Luke Teacy <wtlt at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>> 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

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