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It does not say that at all, in fact it says:

"The upcoming version of Mac OS X, Mountain Lion, will reportedly include warning messages that strongly discourage users from installing apps from sources other than the Mac App Store. Fortunately, it will be possible to turn this off in Mountain Lion and install apps from anywhere you want, but Apple is continuing down the dangerous road of making their products less open."

"Strongly Discourage" != "Disallow"

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Yes, but the statement is still wrong. By default, apps signed with the free-certificates aren't discouraged, they're as first-class as AppStore apps (however, there's a setting to disallow them). Not that Apple is making any effort to clear those misconceptions...

Yes, but the warning message appears only for unsigned apps, not for signed apps outside of the Mac App Store. The article is misleading.

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