[OSX-Users] Re: Apple purging GPL?

[Hugh Glaser]

Really nice, sensible discussion - Chris noting that he is not a typical user, and Steve thinking about what's best for dads, etc..
And about such a contentious subject.

it would be nice if the other lists I see could manage that.

On 30 Aug 2012, at 10:06, Steve Harris <swh at me.com>
 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