Star 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
Apple 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[3]: No, it is not
by Kroc on Wed 9th Jul 2008 13:54 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: No, it is not"
Kroc
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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"
Bending Unit Member since:
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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