Comment by isodev
2 years ago
I wonder if they will foresee a “free” tier of the developer program so open source maintainers can consider this as even remotely viable?
There is also the quetion of privacy, for FOSS creators who are not a company, to have their real name shipped with the binary.
Or is all of this theatrics to try and resuscitate the probably-dead Mac App Store?
This already exists. Mozilla is on the free tier. I would like to see a non-profit organization step up to do this for other projects.
And then the non profit changes hands and suddenly every app it facilitates is in a complicated situation…
I don’t think Apple has truly considered the ramifications of their little security tricks.
This is something I could see a group like Software in the Public Interest doing. They’re not going anywhere or changing hands for the next foreseeable version of your GUI Mac App