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Per Boysen wrote: >> Per Boysen wrote: >>> If this is going to happen I hope it will be an AU port! >>> >>> Apple is putting some serious effort into a validation system to keep >>> badly coded AU plug-ins out of the market. > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:41 AM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> >wrote: > >> translate:- >> "Apple are looking into a way to get money.....again....just like M$" > > > I do not have a problem with that! > I prefer paying for quality and stability compared to wasting my time on >crap. > perhaps there's more than one side to this, what a big company says can be a bit misleading, and what's more, they're saying through their publicity department. (and of course, I have slight reason to believe that you have an interest in software that is produced by small time independent developers :-) I have some personal experience of what validation/certification means from my business software. The checks that are done aren't to do with "bad coding" directly. The applicant has to prove that they are a "bona-fide" company, they have to provide documents from their business. That *is* a way to weed out *some* problem software, but it's no guarantee, and it's a barrier to small time developers, whether or not that's the intention. Now, of course my experience is from the M$ side of things, but it just isn't practical for Apple to do it differently by checking for "bad coding". It would cost a fortune, and would mean that developers would be handing over their source code to be checked. As you'd be the first to acknowledge, there's a number of software developers on this list who don't write crap software, and they might not want to pay to go through some Kafkaesque certification process. andy butler