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Author Topic: The Real Problem with DRM and Walled Gardens  (Read 3,362 times)

40hz

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The Real Problem with DRM and Walled Gardens
« on: February 19, 2012, 12:24 PM »
Not to be outdone by Microsoft's announced intent to wall in Metro applications on all desktop platforms, Apple has launched a bellwether in it's latest and greatest iteration of OSX.

A new 'feature' of OSX Mountain Lion Edition called Gatekeeper "encourages" Macintosh application developers to register their software with Apple. Macintosh owners installing software that was not registered with Apple through a process Apple claims will be both "simple" and "inexpensive" were originally to be greeted with this rather frightening dialog box:

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« Last Edit: February 19, 2012, 12:32 PM by 40hz »

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