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i share your rant bro. (well, not actually because i don't use apple :D)

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  • 7
    As 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.
  • 4
    Security is a myth.
  • 1
    But it's for our own good :)
  • 5
    @flamesdivide I think you're lacking double quotes on "for our own good" :p

    The general public, probably.
    but the devrant community, probably not ;)
  • 0
    @T-Hammer is this real :S
  • 0
    @flamesdivide How is that for our own good if I may ask?
  • 0
    @kamen You understand that they probably mean free as in open source/freedom and not price? :).
  • 0
    @linuxxx yeah, free as in freedom [orchestral music enters, a sun with richard stallman's face on it slowly rises behind the mountains]
  • 0
    Sounds 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.
  • 0
    There is always a way around..
    Wonder how many run Linux or BSD on their Mac
  • 0
    I forgot the quotes @linuxxx
  • 0
    Apple 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.
  • 0
    @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.
  • 1
    @lotd I'd say roughly 100% of Mac users run a variant of BSD.
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