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by takluyver 5036 days ago
Well, Apple requires you to enrol in the $99/year 'developer program' to be able to submit applications. The developer check is more like Ubuntu's equivalent of that.

The key is that in many cases it will be easy to verify the identity of the developer: find the most active few accounts in the version control log, and email them about it. That takes far less time than auditing code.