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> Outrageous is the entitlement of the current generations for not paying for their tools. Sure, but in the case of an open-source developer working on macOS,

by zeveb 6y ago

> Outrageous is the entitlement of the current generations for not paying for their tools. Sure, but in the case of an open-source developer working on macOS, he has already paid for his operating system; if he is using GCC, he has already paid everything the GCC developers require; why then must he pay extra money to Apple in order for other people to run his software in a straightforward manner on their machines (or, in the future, at all)? How is Apple even a party when two people wish to transact, when one writes and compiles free software on his hardware (paid for) and software (paid for) and the other runs it on his hardware (paid for) and software (paid for)?

pjmlp 6y ago
Because traditionally compilers for a specific OS were extra pay. Ironically that you mentioned GCC, it only came to be, because Sun made their development tools an additional payment to the base Solaris price.
- smegger001 6y ago
  You do realize the first thing most admins did after installing Solaris workstations was to install the free BSD utils?
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    No, because I did UNIX administration during late 90's and that wasn't a thing. DG/UX, Aix, HP-UX, Tru64, Solaris, and some Linux boxes ironically not considered serious enough for production deployments.
- GoblinSlayer 6y ago
  Historically free software follows proprietary software because proprietary vendors can't contain their greed and mandate free software, it happened to GNU, git, nextcloud, many times over and over.