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

From	Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.freeware, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
Date	2015-10-09 00:58 +0200
Organization	albasani.net
Message-ID	<20151009005857.229900f0@maxa-pc> (permalink)
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On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:11:40 -0500
JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote:

> On 2015-10-07, Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
> > GreyCloud wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/06/15 12:58, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
> >>> Snit wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 10/6/15, 11:40 AM, in article mv14fg$nfs$2@dont-email.me,
> >>>> "Peter Köhlmann"<peter-koehlmann@t-online.de>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>> linux has *less* choice because of the sheer lack of quality
> >>>>>>>> software
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "Mac users have the choice to run Photoshop and such, and
> >>>>>>> Linux users don't, therefore Mac users have more choice than
> >>>>>>> Linux users."
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Really?  Is that the definition of choice?  The huge variety
> >>>>>>> that Linux offers (both "ready to run" and the limitless
> >>>>>>> possibilities that being open-source offers) count for
> >>>>>>> nothing, in the "choice sweepstakes"?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Irrelevant since OS X runs open source software as well.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A tiny subset of it
> >>>>
> >>>> Most of what Linux does
> >>>
> >>> Most from linux is *not* available.
> >> 
> >> It isn't?  Now what ever happened to this open source code?
> >> Isn't it GPL stuff?  Are you claiming that this software is
> >> close-source?
> >
> > Since when will software modify itself just because it is GPL?
> >
> > It is problematic to port linux/unix GUI softwware to OSX. You have
> > to run 
> 
> ...this is one of the reasons that I don't like Wayland (or Mir).
> 
>    It will push Linux farther away from other Unixen and make it less
> cross compatible. Linux will be like Macs with their own graphics
> layer and associated APIs to code against.

Not true. Wayland is not api. Qt and GTK+ stay the same. Applications
will work by just merely recompiling... or I think so...
It would be idiotic to have one GTK+ or Qt application for X another
for Wayland.

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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-07 12:33 -0600
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 11:47 -0700
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-07 21:44 +0200
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 12:52 -0700
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-07 22:02 +0200
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-07 15:24 -0700
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-10-08 14:11 -0500
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-08 22:13 +0200
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 16:33 -0700
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-10-09 00:58 +0200
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-08 22:29 -0600
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 16:06 -0700
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-08 22:28 -0600
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 22:54 -0700
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 13:37 -0600
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-09 13:48 -0700
              Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 20:09 -0600
                Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-09 19:14 -0700
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-09 10:52 -0400
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-08 22:26 -0600
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-08 22:54 -0700
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-09 13:39 -0600

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