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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You're forgetting why people write open source software: for the fun of programming. They give it away because perhaps someone can improve upon it.
*They do not write apps because mac users want cheap software*
The primary goal of free software is to run on free operating systems. Most of us don't care if it runs on some proprietary UNIX or windows.
Don't like the price of Mac apps? Come to linux or Free/Net/OpenBSD. We could use some talented icon/theme designers.
When was the last time you donated to an open source project? Contributed code?
Thought so.