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Yes, it's "free" (not open source). It's included with the purchase of a Mac.
by cmelbye 9y ago
Yes, it's "free" (not open source). It's included with the purchase of a Mac.
- jcoffland 9y agoThe point is, that kind of free is marketing speak. More accurately, you can purchase Garageband as part of a package including Apple hardware. Or you could say Apple hardware is free with the purchase of Garageband.
- Nullabillity 9y agoSo no, it's not even gratis, it's $500+ depending on how crappy hardware you want it to be tethered to.
- simonh 9y agoThat's a slippery slope to saying that OpenOffice for Windows isn't free software either because you have to buy a Windows box. This is not a useful definition of free you're using. GarageBand is not Libre software.
- komali2 9y agoI dunno if it's a slippery slope starting at Garageband. I say the slippery slope starts at OpenOffice or GoogleDocs or something along those lines, given that OpenOffice could probably be run on a potato if you can find a way to install ubuntu on it and stick some RAM into it.
- thomastjeffery 9y agoThat's absurd, since OpenOffice runs in Linux, and is free, as in freedom.
- hashmal 9y agowhen it comes to getting software, we've stopped including the price of the required computer since like… 1995?
- Marazan 9y agoNot any more.