On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 07:48 AM, Ask Solem Hoel wrote:
> And I really do miss multiple workspaces. The dock isn't really great > when you have LOTS of windows. I miss the window-shading thing when you > double click in GNOME, MacOS 9 etc, I know I can pay for it in > shareware > but never /ever/ will I pay for shareware. Shareware sucks, and there > is > too much of it in the Mac world. That is why we need to re-create every > useful shareware application as free software and kill those egomaniac > shareware authors. The Daring Fireball wrote an interesting op piece about shareware developer Unsanity. Not that you'll change your mind (you sound pretty dogmatic about it), but he makes a good point -- $7 isn't a lot to ask. http://daringfireball.net/2002/10/labels_x.html On second thought, perhaps Apple will just do what they did with Watson, and appropriate the work of their 3rd-party developers into the next $130 "feature" release. So you can wait another year or so and pay for it then. From the perspective of free software, either way you lose -- you did realize you were purchasing a proprietary platform when you moved to OS X, right? Erik -- Erik Price (zombies roam) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
