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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I dunno. VLC media player seems to be doing pretty well on the Mac platform. Most of the Mac users I know prefer VLC over quicktime.
They prefer it because all the really useful stuff in QuickTime requires the Professional License and then it's overkill for most users.
Of course QuickTime X being Pure Cocoa utilizing OpenCL and Multi-Core from the ground up with the design of the consumer not needing all the add-on codecs to do some of the work they'd like to do, as a bonus for buying Snow Leopard, will enjoy it immensely.
Hell, even VLC will benefit if it writes to the Snow Leopard QTKit for Cocoa under 10.6.
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I dunno. VLC media player seems to be doing pretty well on the Mac platform. Most of the Mac users I know prefer VLC over quicktime.