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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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.
Its open/free because you're free to port it yourself if you need it so desperatly.
Or pay a FOSS developer to do the port.
The reason why open software is developed on an open operating system is because you never know when Apple/Microsoft/Sun decides they don't like the competition and makes some changes to break your app.