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What applications*in mac would you rather like to be free?

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kidalex

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Sep 17, 2008
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There a lot of applications available to mac now, but a lot of the great ones aren't free.

What apps would you like to be free that aren't?

I would choose Screenflow, AppZapper, Halo, and Microsoft Office (bleh microsoft)

What about you?
 
I would like none of them to be free. As a professional programmer free applications undercut my very ability to make a living. Well sort-of as I write internal apps for a huge bank.

Still, how would you like it if people kept whining that the results of whatever you do for a living should be free? Should I be able to walk into a top restaurant and eat for free? Travel to work for free? Have a plumber come round for free?
 
I haven't really felt a need to buy any program with mine. The only thing I've had to buy was Rivet.. I found a free equivalent for pretty much everything else
 
kidalex said:
There a lot of applications available to mac now, but a lot of the great ones aren't free.

What apps would you like to be free that aren't?

I would choose Screenflow, AppZapper, Halo, and Microsoft Office (bleh microsoft)

What about you?
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all of them :) ma os x being free itself would be also awesome :)
 
Not free exactly, but I think Apple should license a basic image editor to be provided with all new systems; something like Acorn or Pixelmator. It's a shame that the "creativity" system is has not basic graphics tool out of the box.
 
Why not just demand the computer be free as well? If not, what is the difference between the software and the computer that is required to run the software?

Usually this "All Software Should Be Free" comes from whiny college kids who don't know that the real world compensates effort with money, or morons who have such low value for any software they think even $5 is too much.

Go to CUBA and see how much "free" stuff you get in the Communist "paradise" in the balmy caribbean.
 
DaveF said:
Not free exactly, but I think Apple should license a basic image editor to be provided with all new systems; something like Acorn or Pixelmator. It's a shame that the "creativity" system is has not basic graphics tool out of the box.
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You need to take a look at what you get with a Windows machine and think again about what you just wrote.
 
robbieduncan said:
Should I be able to walk into a top restaurant and eat for free?
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Actually, it would be more like having the recipes available for free. And, much like available software, there are equivalent recipes available for free from a variety of sources. Sometimes they suit your needs...other times, you just have to have that certain dish from that certain restaurant.
 
iMav said:
Actually, it would be more like having the recipes available for free. And, much like available software, there are equivalent recipes available for free from a variety of sources. Sometimes they suit your needs...other times, you just have to have that certain dish from that certain restaurant.
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Your analogy is so flawed. Actually the guy you quoted was spot on.
The restaurant is the shell just like the Mac.
The food served to represent the restaurant is the same as the software offered to represent the computer.

Your flawed analogy states the recipes at the restaurant are the same as the computer software when they are more like the developers programming code for the software. Neither make any sense to give away for free.

Good computing software should be paid for. Those who think not have no bills to pay and most likely live with mommy.
 
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