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.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
* project maintainers get plenty of mails form mac users asking to port the newest version/complaining about integration, even tough the Mac port is often a completly separate fork.
* There are *few* OSS coders on OSX. The people i know with PowerPC rigs run linux on it.
(Maybe Apples switch to intel would help things, but if they prevent it form running compatible non-Apple hardware i doubt it)
They can use al the help they can get from non-coders like you writing docs & howtos, translating, etc.
* Should the bulk of OSS coders (on Linux, BSD and yes: windows) abolish the excelent tools like pyQT of pyGTK because even tough it runs on the Mac, it doesn't integrate nicely? I think not.