21 Feb 2012 09:52
Re: Haskell development in Mac OS X after Gatekeeper
Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak <at> cse.unsw.edu.au>
2012-02-21 08:52:32 GMT
2012-02-21 08:52:32 GMT
Austin Seipp: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Tom Murphy <amindfv <at> gmail.com> wrote: >> On the other hand, >> it's impossible for a software company to maintain a sense of >> professionalism, when a user has to know a weird "secret handshake" to >> disable what they may perceive as equivalent to antivirus software. > > I'll also just add that if you're an actual software company, large or > small, the $100 for the developer ID, certificate, ability to do > iOS/App store apps, whatever, is a business expense, that is utterly > dominated by a million other factors, as developing high quality > applications isn't exactly cheap, and the price of a license is really > the last thing you're going to worry about. > > If you're more worried about the potential to impact individual > developers and small open source teams who want to get their work out > there, you are right it's a concern. I think, Apple has made their stance quite clear by releasing the command line dev tools: http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html Manuel
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