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kamen69178yAs much as I dislike Apple, I must disagree with the "No free software" and "No installing apps from the web" parts - these are slightly exaggerated.
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lotd77758y@flamesdivide I think you're lacking double quotes on "for our own good" :p
The general public, probably.
but the devrant community, probably not ;) -
@kamen You understand that they probably mean free as in open source/freedom and not price? :).
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Grumpy28828ySounds like hogwash. Why shouldn't it be possible to install free (as in both free beer and free rant from Stallman) software on a mac? Devs do that all the time.
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human2308yApple is taking steps to limit non-App Store apps, such as removing the 'Allow from Everywhere" option in System Preferences by default in macOS Sierra. So, yes, they are limiting free and open source software.
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kamen69178y@linuxxx Yeah, now that I look at it again, that's GNU's icon. Haven't tried Sierra, but from what I read, it can be reverted to allow installs from anywhere and many freeware apps are available outside of the App Store.
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i share your rant bro. (well, not actually because i don't use apple :D)
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