I think the permissions are set that way since it’s a system folder installed with the OS itself and they don’t want you to be able to delete it accidentally. Obviously, users might want to be able to do that easily for self installed apps though :)

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika
danomatika.com

On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:37 AM, Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu> wrote:

I took the cue from "Wish.app" that I cloned Pd.app from - perhaps there's
no reason for it at all.