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999900000999today at 11:08 AM2 repliesview on HN

Thanks for sharing.

Everyone is speed running towards a future where you need a permit to write software.

Try to run a binary that doesn’t have the right cert( or whatever it’s called on Windows) and you get a bunch of warnings.

Even if Android is open , normal people will only use the App Store. I can imagine China forcing Apple to allow 3rd party installations of software one day .

The EU did something where to my knowledge Apple still gets a cut of each sale.


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Shoreltoday at 3:04 PM

Not just warnings.

I literally can't run non signed software in the job-provided computer even if I compile it myself.

Createtoday at 11:40 AM

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).