Our government allows ludicrous control to rights holders. I don’t own any copies of movies, for example, even discs. Disney owns the physical discs. I just have them in my home. I own the right to play the discs in certain ways. I’ll bet policies will be updated to clarify that Disney doesn’t approve of, “training AI”.

But it’s the same here. If you aren’t actively doing anything that upsets rights holders, they’ll leave you alone.

This change requires you to attach your real name when publishing software. That’s all. You can still publish to and install packages from anywhere. This doesn’t come close to Apple’s complete control.

Google already scans packages you’re installing for malware and alerts you and allows you to install them anyway. This gives that scanner one more tool to identify bad actors.

• Android will require apps to be signed with real name signatures. You can install apps from anywhere.
• iPhone doesn’t allow any apps to be installed except when downloaded from Apple through iTunes.