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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No, it is not pathetic. I simply wrote my article with a DIFFERENT standpoint. The problem here is that most of our readers ARE Linux weenies, and so they only care about their GPL. My standpoint was from the Mac-Joe-User, not from a perspective of an editor. Here is the reasoning of a Mac-Joe-User:
1. GPL apps are free of charge (most of the time).
2. Someone port them so I can use them on my OSX.
I EXPLAINED very clearly that this is not the case if you try to split hairs, but for the COMMON user it will surely LOOK that way. Why nobody can't understand this viewpoint here? I take my brother as an example. He won't give a rat's ass about GPL and Free software, he will only care about free software, meaning, software that he won't pay for, like gimp-app for OSX. THERE ARE A LOT of people who think that way, so my article was written from the standpoint of the "common osx user", NOT the editor of OSNEWs.com who is into tech things.
As for your questions:
1. No, I don't care about free Cocoa apps. I simply asked for ports of existing Free apps because they are already there and apparently is not too hard to port them.
2. No, Gnustep is NOT the best bet to port apps, because there is NO gnustep app worth porting. They all suck or they are too primitive.