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Author of Sloth here. I develop free software in my spare time and I'm not willing to pay Apple USD 100 per year for the "privilege" of developing for their pla
by svth 8y ago
Author of Sloth here. I develop free software in my spare time and I'm not willing to pay Apple USD 100 per year for the "privilege" of developing for their platform. It's a sad state of affairs when independent developers like me have to shell out hard cash in order to give software away for free. True, USD 100 isn't much, but I'm opposed, on principle, to paying money to an enormously wealthy megacorporation just to make software for their platform. Not so very long ago, macOS had a vibrant independent developer community. It's now slowly being choked to death with this horrid App Store stuff.
- MiddleEndian 8y agoGood for you, man. That was one of the reasons I stopped using OS X.
- cjohansson 8y agoKeep up the good work, I agree with you on that. I can’t see any reason why Apple don’t give free developer certificates to serious developers
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoI think that $100 is less of a cash grab and more of a gate to nefarious actors - they can’t trivially cycle through certificates for their malware without spending $100 every time, but $100 is likely not so much that it will hurt an independent developer. I see your perspective though. I have mixed feelings about it as well.