[jon6]

OT but is this an official signed application that can work with gatekeeper on 10.8? I recently discovered that my open source project won't work by default on osx 10.8 without me paying $99 to get an apple certificate, which I'm not very interested in doing.

What are open source/free projects supposed to do about gatekeeper?

[callahad]

> What are open source/free projects supposed to do about gatekeeper?

They're supposed to pay up.

The signing Developer Certificate Utility at https://developer.apple.com/certificates/ rejects accounts that are not paid members of the Mac Developer Program, and a footnote at https://developer.apple.com/resources/developer-id/ states that "Mac Developer Program membership is required to access the tools and resources for distributing Mac applications."

[plorkyeran]

Tell users how to turn it off. I've never seen a user object to doing so, possibly because they don't understand what it's doing in the first place.

[stephen_g]

You don't have to turn it off. Just Command click the application and click open the first time. It's automatically added to a whitelist.

[pnathan]

I disabled Gatekeeper's hollering on 10.8. I suspect most power users will do the same, but I have no data for that suspicion.

[msbarnett]

"Power Users" can have the best of both worlds by simply right-clicking and selecting "Open" to whitelist specific non-signed apps that they want to trust.

I'd mostly expect people who turn it off entirely to fit the "don't really know what they're doing but like to do whatever a forum post tells them to do" archetype.