11.15.05

Open source software and the mac

Posted in Mac OS X, computers at 2:48 pm by Haris

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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Adler and the Mac

Posted in Mac OS X, computers at 7:36 am by Haris

A wonderful video that will be of great interest to mac developers is circulated online. It’s a 2.5 hour long discussion between some of the best independent mac programmers, including the creators of Quicksilver, VoodooPad, Fire, Delicious Library and NetNewsWire. It’s a relatively large download, about half a gig, but definitely worth it. It’s released under a Create Commons Licence, which will make Sameer very happy.

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