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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The GPL is not the only Free license around (guess which one do I like?
(Please consider this post as a generic zaelotic rant on the GPL vs BSD issue)
On the whole I think you're right Free software needs better packaging, but I think you're underestimating fink or darwinports, I've come across a lot of old-mac people who did not care a bit about unix but were using it a lot