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Are Macs the Red-Headed Stepchild of Open Source?

Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Wed 9th Jul 2008 12:03 UTC, submitted by estherschindler

One benefit to open-source applications is they can run on any operating system you want. But getting open-source software developed for the Mac is -- depending on whom you ask -- slow as molasses or quick as lightning. Mac expert Lisa Hoover collected several viewpoints. Which do you think is right?

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RE[2]: No, it is not

by kragil on Wed 9th Jul 2008 13:41 UTC in reply to "RE: No, it is not"

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2006-01-04

So Mac people have to "fork" every project like they did Adium, cause hardly any open source projects are started on Macs.

Well .. maybe OT4 gpl and KDE4 will change that in a few years ( not too soon I guess ).

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RE[3]: No, it is not

by Kroc on Wed 9th Jul 2008 13:54 in reply to "RE[2]: No, it is not"

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2005-11-10

There is no fork involved with Adium. (at least not this far down the line)
It's standard libpurple, with their own Cocoa front-end.

You have to understand that open source on the Mac does not always equal "portable" & "cross platform". It just means open source, and that's it.

Edited 2008-07-09 13:55 UTC

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RE[4]: No, it is not

by Bending Unit on Wed 9th Jul 2008 23:10 in reply to "RE[3]: No, it is not"

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2005-07-06

In other words, "portable" & "cross platform" are weak points we don't really want to discuss?

But I know how you feel. GTK isn't much more acceptable on Windows.

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