Re: mobius for mac

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Per Boysen wrote:
>> Per Boysen wrote:
>>> If this is going to happen I hope it will be an AU port!
>>>
>>> Apple is putting some serious effort into a validation system to keep
>>> badly coded AU plug-ins out of the market.
> 
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:41 AM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> 
>wrote:
> 
>> translate:-
>> "Apple are looking into a way to get money.....again....just like M$"
> 
> 
> I do not have a problem with that!
> I prefer paying for quality and stability compared to wasting my time on 
>crap.
> 

perhaps there's more than one side to this,
what a big company says can be a bit misleading,
and what's more,
they're saying through their publicity department.

(and of course, I have slight reason to believe that you have an interest
in software that is produced by small time independent developers :-) 

I have some personal experience of what validation/certification means
from my business software. The checks that are done aren't to do with
"bad coding" directly. The applicant has to prove that they are 
a "bona-fide" company, they have to provide documents from their 
business. That *is* a way to weed out *some* problem software, but it's
no guarantee, and it's a barrier to small time developers, whether
or not that's the intention.

Now, of course my experience is from the M$ side of things, but 
it just isn't practical for Apple to do it differently by checking for 
"bad coding".
It would cost a fortune, and would mean that developers would be
handing over their source code to be checked.



As you'd be the first to acknowledge, there's a number of software 
developers on this list who don't write crap
software, and they might not want to pay to go through some Kafkaesque 
certification process.

andy butler