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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> 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.
Which is exactly what the article asks too: Someone port these apps, so the mac users can use them, as there are no free alternatives on their platform.
> 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.
This is utterly stupid. Are you out of good excuses as to why we have so many GPL trolls here pissed off over the article's suggestion to port more GPL apps to a closed platform?