Every time I see a developer completely fail to understand what notarisation is and how it works then proceed to say that their faulty understanding was the last straw and that they'll stop developing for macOS, I can't say I feel anything but delight. If basic reading comprehension is beyond so many developers, I can't imagine wanting their code on my machine, even in a sandbox.
I used to write a lot of apps for Mac. Including free and open source software. Now I have to pay $$$ and jump through hoops just to keep on doing it. It is amazingly arrogant for them to expect me to pay for doing them a free service. You can have as much autoschadenfreude as you want.
University students and people from countries on the US trade sanctions list will (I predict) not be able to share binaries in a future macOS, for example. It also gives apple a way to ban certain categories of program at the behest of the legal apparatus they have to operate in.
You can turn it off now, but you can't tell me you will always be able to turn it off.
I will abandon macOS when it is financially convenient - I hope you are delighted.
Every time I see a developer completely fail to understand what notarisation is and how it works then proceed to say that their faulty understanding was the last straw and that they'll stop developing for macOS, I can't say I feel anything but delight. If basic reading comprehension is beyond so many developers, I can't imagine wanting their code on my machine, even in a sandbox.
The arrogance is incredible, indeed.