Red Sweater Blog - It Should Be Free

Red Sweater Blog - It Should Be Free

I don’t care if someone charges for an app or not. But one thing that has always puzzled me is why there are so many free (as in beer) applications for the mac that aren’t also open source. If you’re giving your application away for free, why not show the source too?

My only guess is that the default-to-open-source attitude isn’t as in-grained in the mac world as is it elsewhere.

2 Comments »

  1. Daniel Jalkut said,

    March 27, 2008 @ 8:58 pm

    The same reason they don’t put pictures from the sausage factory on the package in the store ;)

  2. taybin said,

    March 28, 2008 @ 3:35 am

    [quote comment=""]The same reason they don’t put pictures from the sausage factory on the package in the store ;)[/quote]

    Haha, oh man, that’d be great. Also: a copy of The Jungle with every purchase of ground beef.

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