On: Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams

[fsflover]

Because it's technically the same as GNU/Linux repositories (i.e. relies on community and FLOSS). Therefore, one can expect that when it grows, and average Joe starts using it, there will be no huge inflow of malware in it.

> But we have historically seen issues with those repos haven’t we?

Care to elaborate?

[tekknik → fsflover]

The two being open source is an apples to oranges comparison.

Here’s one issue we’ve had with these repos:

https://lwn.net/Articles/295406/

Then there’s things like NPM that’s broken quite a few production deployments in spectacularly public ways.