Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Jun 2005 08:54 UTC
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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>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.
Nobody wants for a full linux installation. But having for a few good Free apps is desirable, like the ones Apple ALREADY USES: e.g. Samba.
Funny guys, you are getting pissed off when someone asks for a port of a GPL app, and yet you are calling these apps "open". Open my ass.
I want to run Mac OS X more than I want to run Linux because the desktop experience is better. But I wouldn't mind some of the good GPL apps.