Fellow devs, I have to take the minority view here. How is $99/yr a number that any business should even care about? Even for OSS.
The reality is that the HN audience are complete outliers. Just look at the junk your friends and family install on their machines.
On a related note, the equivalent in Windows is SmartScreen. It prompts similarly to Mac for unsigned downloads as well as signed ones where there isn't yet sufficient reputation on the signing key. That last part is frustrating - we have a downloadable software component for our SaaS. It's not that frequently used and every time we renew the cert (third party BTW, not with MS), it takes a few weeks for SmartScreen to start trusting it.
> How is $99/yr a number that any business should even care about? Even for OSS.
If you’re including solo non-business programmers in that, I’ll say I find it unreasonable to ask of an open-source developer that in addition to giving their time to develop and support their software, they should also give their money.
It’s great that $100 is chump change for you. That’s not the case for everyone, certainly not all open-source developers.
The reality is that the HN audience are complete outliers. Just look at the junk your friends and family install on their machines.
On a related note, the equivalent in Windows is SmartScreen. It prompts similarly to Mac for unsigned downloads as well as signed ones where there isn't yet sufficient reputation on the signing key. That last part is frustrating - we have a downloadable software component for our SaaS. It's not that frequently used and every time we renew the cert (third party BTW, not with MS), it takes a few weeks for SmartScreen to start trusting it.