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Unsanity Developer Comes to APE's Defense

Posted by pudge on from the kill-teletubby-smash dept.

beelsebob writes "Rosyna, the famously tellytubby-like Unsanity Developer has spoken out in the defense of their Application Enhancer (APE) framework. The framework has taken a beating since it came out, being accused of being spyware, or of crashing computers. In fact Unsanity have only received one bug report about APE itself, which was promptly fixed. The article is a very good defence of the product, and a very good read."

3 of 138 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Extensions for Mac OS X by ahknight · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Refutes? Oh, you mean because now it takes down applications and not the system.

    Oh. Better.

    No.

  2. Re:Extensions for Mac OS X by ahknight · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Because one buggy APE module will possibly kill all programs (one at a time) rather than the whole.

    I mean, really, anything that makes the computer, at any level, unstable is not worth using.

  3. Re:Extensions for Mac OS X by ahknight · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I did read the article, actually. A bit before it hit Slashdot, as a matter of fact. His analogy is rather incorrect on that mark. QuickTime does not insert code into every program that runs, regardless of what it does. A buggy codec can't take down every program, even if it does not use QuickTime. APE modules can because they are blindly inserted into any program you don't explicity exclude.

    So while the module types listed are indeed external pieces of code that can cause a crash, they don't run in every program you run. Things like Shapeshifter or Ice Coffee do (screw camel-caps).