[isodev]

I wonder if they will foresee a “free” tier of the developer program so open source maintainers can consider this as even remotely viable?

There is also the quetion of privacy, for FOSS creators who are not a company, to have their real name shipped with the binary.

Or is all of this theatrics to try and resuscitate the probably-dead Mac App Store?

[mattl]

This already exists. Mozilla is on the free tier. I would like to see a non-profit organization step up to do this for other projects.

[isodev]

And then the non profit changes hands and suddenly every app it facilitates is in a complicated situation…

I don’t think Apple has truly considered the ramifications of their little security tricks.

[mattl]

This is something I could see a group like Software in the Public Interest doing. They’re not going anywhere or changing hands for the next foreseeable version of your GUI Mac App