[OSX-Users] Re: Apple purging GPL?

[Philip Boulain]

On 30/08/2012 10:06, Steve Harris wrote:
> 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. 

The inevitable upshot of that is that pressing the "power user" button 
is just part of the install procedure for "everything", in the same way 
that UAC on Windows is something most people either just thump "yes" on 
or turn off entirely. The same way that for decades installers on 
Windows suggested disabling anti-virus* while running them, although for 
that one since it wasn't a blocker people didn't tend to do it AFAIK.

People do not give a damn for stuff getting in the way of running 
software they think they want to run. It's all a distraction to be 
dismissed as quickly as possible.

-- 
Phil
* Particularly games. I suspect the funny thing here is that the 
legitimate software was trying to install "legitimate" DRM rootkits. If 
you want to see where normal software DRM is going to be in a few years, 
look to gaming---Steam has been doing the "App Store" routine since 2003 
(Apple's was introduced in 2008), and is even moving to non-gaming 
software now itself.