Star The need for GPL Free Apps on Mac OS X
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Jun 2005 08:54 UTC
Mac OS X The Mac platform was always considered a premium platform, hence much of its software is shareware or commercial. In the recent days more freeware applications have emerged, but the majority are small utilities and not full scale applications. Enter the world of GNU which can not only provide "free" applications as in beer, but most importantly, "Free", as in Freedom.
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linux or osx?
by ozn on Thu 16th Jun 2005 09:14 UTC


Funny ;) You want the cool proprietary OS. But you'd like
it for free too probably. And the the apps. For free of course.

Aren't you a fan of Linux? Use it instead then ;)
Sorry, but my opinion is that people that makes a great
work (on a program, on a job, in a mine..) deserve something
back.

Apple model is 'pay your stuff' (much more than windows eg).
Apple customers are in my experience the ones most likely
to buy instead of copying and keen to register shareware.
And this is the kind of customers Aple likes, of course.

For sure there can be GPl'd programs for OSX, and great
ones too, but imho it makes no sense to have a whole
linux installation under a different os.
Just stick with linux...

Or what you like from apple is the bells and whistles
your penguin can't give you? ;)

My 2 cents and some off topic