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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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and pay greater attention to your context and audience. Defending a defenseless position that was eloquently pointed out and subsequently replied with what amounts to the toddler taking the bucket and shovel out of the sandbox is pathetic.
Either know what the hell you are promoting in an editorial or expect those that do to reply. Get used to it or by all means go write freeware.
Something you fail to address are the options open to Cocoa developers and whether one chose to write applications and if they want to give them away are they free software based upon BSD licensing/GPL or whatever.
The best bet for porting GPLd code natively into OS X is via GNUstep and its ObjC code base.
Perhaps if the GNOME and KDE folks would collaborate with some ObjC experts in the GNUstep space they might see more of their tools Cocoa-ified. Just a thought.