[Gllug] OT: Mac OS X for a linux user

[Matthew Thompson]

On 7 Sep 2006, at 16:41, Simon Morris wrote:

> Good example is Office software - the choice boils down to Microsoft
> Office, Appleworks or OpenOffice.org. Both OpenOffice for the Mac and
> the Neo-Office port just aren't as graphically pleasing to use as the
> native Aqua ones.

NeoOffice 2.0 is now Aqua based, it's pretty good as it goes. There's  
also Apple's iWork suite if you're mostly a word processor and  
presentation user. Spreadsheet rumoured to be coming in the next  
version. Reasonable price for the software too.

> My guess is that if you buy a Mac and use OS X you'll be agreeing to a
> lot more restrictive licences and paying more for your software.

More than free OSS yes - More than equivalent Windows software, not  
necessarily. Mac OS X full is cheaper than WinXP Pro Upgrade, the  
iWork and iLife suites are £55 each.

The software I've bought for my Mac I've been impressed with. Things  
like BitTorrent clients are available OSS and look good. Other  
packages aren't open source but are free and extremely high quality.  
There are also some amazingly well put together applications like  
Delicious Library - the iSight barcode scanning in it is etremely  
clever and workes really well for indexing software, CDs and boks etc.

M at t :o)

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