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 don't think that they will port much stuff to the mac.
As long as the application which is beeing ported to the mac does not look 100% mac native, the most user will not use them. For most mac users it is not important if the application solves a problem or helps them to get things done. They care the most about the look and feel of the application then about functionality. And they expect everyone to deliver them the application they need, instead of porting anything to the mac.
It does not suprice me at all, that there are not that much free applications available for the mac. Porting an application to the mac is not easy as 1-2-3 and most important: it takes time.
And I don't think that any mac user will understand that this is a long process and as soon as they would spot a small inconsitency in the look and feel, they jump up and down and keep telling you that your application/port is bad. You can't expect much help from the most mac users.
Anyway... I wish mac users would be more cooperative and work together with the open source community to get things ported to the mac. But I don't think this will happen.