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by no_time 1614 days ago
Yeah I agree it's a very nontrivial task but there is a difference between not doing it because it's hard or explicitly saying "fuck you, know your place"

>If you launch an owner-signed kernel, iOS app support turns itself off; and the Apple-signed versions of macOS actually have the same sideloading restrictions on iOS apps that iOS does.

Has there been an attempt to patch this out? if the supposed owner override is actually real then technically the only thing separating you from a non treacherous ios subsystem is a few conditional jumps right?

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Interestingly, this[0] was posted a day after the article. It looks like Apple initially contributed a lot to BASH for instance

>We had a lot of gratitude in the Open Source community — particular for our fixes to make bash pass the tests.

The GNU projects showed their appreciation by re-licensing under the GPLv3.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984016