I don't understand, what would be the point of a self-signed cert? And what happens when a cert expires down the road self-signed or not? I have not really looked at the subject so I may be showing my total ignorance.
On Mar 7, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Martin Pilkington wrote: > On 5 Mar 2010, at 10:35 pm, Allan Bazinet wrote: > > > I would think that the prospect of an App Store model, including signed > > code, and Apple vetting and approval of products, as we see on the iPhone > > today, would be of greater concern. > > > > To date, the Mac has been an open platform, but it would seem to me that > > all the scaffolding to make it a closed one is already in place, and it's > > difficult to argue that the closed iPhone business model hasn't been a wild > > success. > > I don't think Apple would ever make a compulsory App Store. They can't just > turn around and demand 30% off all developers for an OS upgrade. It could > potentially be an optional thing in the future, but there's no real > connection between this price drop and an app store. The one thing that you > said that could become enforced is code signing, even if it is just self > signed certificates. Apple has hinted that in the future they may only allow > signed code to run on the Mac, and really you should be signing already > anyway, whether it is compulsory or not. > > --------------------------------- > Martin Pilkington > Writer of Weird Symbols > [email protected] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
