11.15.05
Open source software and the mac
Here’s a pretty good list of open source software for the mac. Sameer will be very happy about those too (though he probably already knows about most of them). There’s definitely a lot of positive things to be said about open source projects, but I’m probably not the one to comment on that very much. A very interesting read is Neal Stephenson’s little article titled In the Beginning was the Command Line. This is a wonderful read that makes a lot of interesting points. One of these points is that software companies have in effect managed to sell us a series of 0,1 bits, and one could argue how something like that could ever be possible.
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