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With macOS, you can install anything you want. The macOS App Store only contains a subset of all software available/written for macOS.


That seems to be changing too for apps outside the Mac App Store:

"Beginning in macOS 10.15, notarization is required by default for all software." [1]

How many users would even figure out (if it's possible and) how to bypass this? Looks like developers will have to do a lot more.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...


Not that difficult to notarize an app. For example, the latest Sublime Text just added it the other day.


Alright, but, of course, we're talking about more legacy apps, here. What if I've paid a licence for an obscure VST?


I have been running beta versions of Catalina for several months. Catalina is locked down, security wise.




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