Being Thankful for Free Software Developers
Just to put it out there, Apple offers quite a bit of free software when you purchase their hardware. This includes OS upgrades and their office suite as well as Xcode and Garage Band, among other things. It&#x27;s quite nice and they are well made.<p>There are a few asterisks though, most notably support life for the OS. My 2009 MacPro won&#x27;t run the latest OS for no other reason than Apple decided it couldn&#x27;t (end of life). The 2010 model is allowed to run it and there is no discernible difference in the hardware.<p>Having said that FOSS was truly paradigm changing. I lived in a world before Linux and everything was prohibitively expensive on the PC. There was a lot of freeware and public domain software available, but most of it wasn&#x27;t very good or niche stuff. It&#x27;s quite amazing that the FOSS movement it was able to happen, let alone gain so much traction with such great software. I mean today, you don&#x27;t have to buy a damn thing except the hardware.