The alternative, which is to do all the private/privileged stuff directly in OBS, means that Apple would have to give the general ability for arbitrary software to do what ScreenCaptureKit is doing, which may be a security issue (spyware that snoops on what's being displayed on screen comes to mind.) Making something like ScreenCaptureKit as the supported interface to do this kind of thing, can ensure the app triggers the proper permissions dialog/etc so that screen recording doesn't happen without user knowledge. It seems like Apple already made ScreenCaptureKit for their platforms, and wanted to help OBS by hooking it up to ScreenCaptureKit to take advantage of that work. You can provide a nice higher-level API (like ScreenCaptureKit) to access such 'privileged' capabilities from normal apps, so that arbitrary open-source software (like OBS) can hook into it. Capturing screen output at a high refresh rate without introducing lag may be better implemented with lower-level access to certain system components, in a way that may require certain privileges in order to make it work. I mean, it's not a bad engineering philosophy for things as low-level as this to be provided by the OS as a framework. I suspect that during the 90s/early 2000s it was seen as a good way to innovate, similar to incubator labs within companies now days. Heck MS has a long tradition of employees leaving to start a new company and MS buying that company up a few years later. The entire 'developers first' culture there extends to how they treat their own employees.

At multiple times, Microsoft has actively encouraged their employees to write software as a side hustle! They've launched internal competitions 'We have a cool new SDK, write some software and put it on the MS Store! Best rated software wins some prize!' They do require you not write software that directly competes with existing Microsoft software, for obvious reasons, but other than that it is fair game.īut this doesn't even cover the whole of it. 'Do not use any hardware we provide for you, and do not use any software you installed from the corporate network, buy your own copy of development tools and licenses, you can use the free Azure credits we give you but not the ones linked to your employee login, make sure you use the credits on your personal account.' On the day of employee orientation, they specifically talk about moonlighting and HOW to do it. I am not talking about non-competes, I am talking about moonlighting.

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