Hi Tim
The problem is not developers ensuring their identities by signing their apps. It's that there's now a (small) barrier for the end user in installing unsigned apps.
The implementation has yet to be seen, but will getting around this barrier simply be a pop up ("press OK if you really trust this software", the implementation most people are familiar with but largely ineffective IMHO), or will the INSTALL file include OS X specific directives to circumvent the walled garden? ("OS X users must CTRL-Click to install this application").
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> You could sign your own software
> (for free) and then distribute your public key to the community, in case
> you want to do something similar.
[FUD] OS X won't trust those keys, only the ones that come from apple [/FUD]
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Francis E. Reyes M.Sc.
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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