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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I for one can quite understand Eug's viewpoint. I'm a programmer for a small company so my work overlaps quite a bit. As such, sadly enough for me, I get to be involved with users quite a bit.
Users, the average ones, only care about how easy the software is to use followed by how much it costs. And 'ease of use' includes installion, help, documentation and everything. The entire experience.
Linux users/developers and the advocates of free software often seem to forget that to many people only care about the computer as the means to an end. That means, a user doesn't care about X, consoles, terminals configurations or whatsoever, no matter if we're talking about windows, linux or OSX.
The -only- thing that the user wants is to spend is little time behind the computer to accomplish as much as possible at the smallest cost. And that's the viewpoint demonstrated in the article.