What is the problem of "open source" for Mac?

Despite the fact that the operating system Mac OS is developed based on BSD Unix, it is not too much respect for community supporters of open source software. But even among the free programs, there are only designed for the Mac. This, for example, the utility AppleJackAssistant to solve problems with your computer, and the project Fink to modify the software Unix, so that it eventually worked in Mac OS X.

Why is the program with open source and has not become popular on the Mac? ZDNet columnist Dana Blankenhorn (Dana Blankenhorn) offers seven versions.

1. Owners of Mac computers for the most part - ordinary users, not programmers. They satisfy an integrated set of software and specialized programs, which are as comfortable analogues on Windows-based PCs are often simply do not have (Final Cut Pro, Logic Studio). If the program is large enough, who want to climb into the code?
2. Steve Jobs himself (Steve Jobs) is not very fond of open source software. And against the background of a negative relation between the MS and the open source community look like a strong friendship.
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3. There is no critical mass. Apple users are many, but among them is not enough disgruntled. You can not say about linuksoydah who are left to themselves and are forced to create their own solutions
4. There is no profit. It can hardly be a lot of money by creating products with open source software for Mac OS X.
5. Apple company copes with the conquest of new niches within their own ecosystem. This is quite enough.
6. Mac users can hardly be called misers, they are more willing to pay for the software.
7. Finally, apart from anything else, there are plenty of excellent free software with open source software for Mac computers. Just journalists who use Windows-based PCs, but writing about the Mac, too, is not there where you are looking for.

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I have on this subject has his own theory. In the Open Source world, a lot of talented programmers, but in the creation of applications rarely participate interface designers. As a result, use of such software is not very convenient. visual podtverzhdenie- fresh Tweet known podcaster Artem Rosnovskogo "record podcasts Audacity - pure torture. Open Source to a full-fledged products for many years of improvements, apparently... ".

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