Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.freeware, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
Date	2015-10-12 09:50 -0700
Message-ID	<D24132DC.60142%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References	(15 earlier) <mvfec1$r7k$2@news.albasani.net> <D2412AA4.600C1%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <121020151218068520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <D2412DE0.60120%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <mvgnrd$qg2$1@dont-email.me>

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On 10/12/15, 9:43 AM, in article mvgnrd$qg2$1@dont-email.me, "Peter
Köhlmann" <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:

> Snit wrote:
> 
>> On 10/12/15, 9:18 AM, in article 121020151218068520%nospam@nospam.invalid,
>> "nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <D2412AA4.600C1%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>, Snit
>>> <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Plenty of room.  Check to see if your MBP is on their list in
>>>>>>>>> regards to
>>>>>>>>> El Capitan OS.  If it is, there is Xcode 7 available plus Swift
>>>>>>>>> 2.0. About the only improvement Swift has done over C is that they
>>>>>>>>> dropped
>>>>>>>>> the ; at the end of statements.  The rest is of the improvements
>>>>>>>>> are help in cutting down on the amount of coding you'd have to do
>>>>>>>>> in C.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> nonsense. swift is worlds better than c ever was in *so* many ways.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> That Apple copyright makes it ever so wonderful...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> swift is open source, as is a lot of stuff apple does.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You mean as open and widely used as Darwin?
>>>> 
>>>> So open source is only open if widely used?
>>>> 
>>>> Also keep in mind Darwin is used by every OS X user - and OS X is the
>>>> most popular UNIX on the planet.
>>> 
>>> apple's webkit is open source and very widely used, including by their
>>> competitors, namely google. nokia and palm also used it.
>> 
>> Absolutely correct. And Apple now owns CUPSs which is also heavily used by
>> many Linux distros.
> 
> Which was already used for a long time by linux before apple bought it

Irrelevant. The FACT is Apple now owns it. Which is what I said.

> Apple even openly lies about it when stating
> 
> "CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple
> Inc. for OS X® and other UNIX®-like operating systems"

It is currently being developed by Apple. I agree the wording could be
better, though.
 
> They have *not* developed CUPS, they bought the existing and fully
> functional CUPS

They ARE developing CUPS.

But you hate all things Apple because you focus on a logo and your jealousy.
So be it. To you and your herd it is a "status symbol" - representing
something you will never have.



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