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From: Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "pd-dev@iem.at" pd-dev@iem.at Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Mac Os now requiring Apple signatures on all SW !?
T hat sounds sensible... sounds like I can probably do nothing for now (but I'm worried they're going to progressively lock things down harder in the future... this isn't going in a good direction!)
Well, if they decide to remove the easy workaround that would be a big enough change that we'll likely hear news from FSF and others.
-Jonathan
M
Again, that adds credibility to a system that adds little more than a pain
for
users, and it distracts everyone other than bureaucrats. Most users just
want to
download and run your software.
If a school sysadmin wants to misunderstand security and force instructors
to
go through the hoops, then the school or, at worst, the instructor should
pay you
to jump through the hoops and get a signing key. The end user
shouldn't even be
aware of any of this, other than maybe seeing a link to the _trivial_
workaround
katja mentioned next to the version you currently have available.
-Jonathan