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 just installed tiger the other day, and X11 is NOT installed by default, I had to do a custom install to get it. (it may come installed on new machines from apple, but not a default install from the tiger DVD.
And if you can't stand using the CLI to install/uninstall, try finkcommander, it is a cocoa gui for "dselect" makes it as easy as a mouce click to install or remove software. (included with fink)
Some more badly ported X11 software is not what OS X needs (gimp.app looks ok, but try to use it. OpenOffice, is hardly usable on the mac, NeoOffice, despite being ugly, actually is usable, and does not use X11).
Now some nice cocoa gui wrappers for opensource "backends" would both allow "Free Software" to work on the mac, like a mac app should (Like Chess.app, just a gui for GNU Chess, installed by default on OS X) and not like a X11 program. Do not get me wrong, I like linux, and free software (and use both), but if the work is to be done to port an app, lets do it right.
Also as I belive the mantra goes, if you want that feature, start coding...
btw, before anyone asks, I have donated money/time/code to several smaller OpenSource projects, and have always released my own code as GPL'd
-Rich