{"id":8609,"date":"2014-03-27T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2014-03-27T11:44:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:44:35","slug":"apple-discourages-mac-kernel-extension-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/27\/apple-discourages-mac-kernel-extension-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Discourages Mac Kernel Extension Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/landonfuller\/status\/448230389144756224\">Landon Fuller<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/landonfuller\/status\/448230389144756224\"><p>My IOUSBFamily radar: &ldquo;The issue is not going to be addressed &#8230; We discourage developers to do anything in kernel&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rentzsch.tumblr.com\/post\/80623753492\/apple-close-sources-iousbfamily\">Wolf Rentzsch<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/rentzsch.tumblr.com\/post\/80623753492\/apple-close-sources-iousbfamily\"><p>If this Radar response is accurate, it appears Apple will no longer publish OS X&rsquo;s IOUSBFamily source code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/landonfuller\/status\/448230996853665792\">Landon Fuller<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/landonfuller\/status\/448230996853665792\"><p>Along with the kext signing approval requirements, I&rsquo;d say the writing is on the wall: Apple&rsquo;s not afraid to knee-cap Mac OS X, iOS-style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can see why Apple doesn&rsquo;t like kernel extensions, but forbidding them, or locking out all but a few high-profile developers, would be bad for the future of the platform.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landon Fuller:My IOUSBFamily radar: &ldquo;The issue is not going to be addressed &#8230; We discourage developers to do anything in kernel&rdquo; Wolf Rentzsch:If this Radar response is accurate, it appears Apple will no longer publish OS X&rsquo;s IOUSBFamily source code. Landon Fuller:Along with the kext signing approval requirements, I&rsquo;d say the writing is on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[38,828,30,74,71],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-apple","tag-kernel-extensions","tag-mac","tag-opensource","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}