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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Best Example for OpenSource on Mac OS X is AbiWord. It is 100% native Aqua. It hast the Menubar Menus, the Apple Open/Save Dialogs, etc. It looks almost 100% like Word for Mac.
I wished Gimp would be the same. Actually I don't understand why it is not. Both build upon gtk, etc. so shouldn't be so difficult?
OpenOffice is huge Codemonster, Lucky there is NeoOffice. It already blends quite nicely into Mac OS X. Just the Open/Save Dialogs are still from OO and this sucks, because you browse the native Directory Tree.