The Beauty of Free

Feb.16, 2005 in AppleMatters, OS X

My latest AppleMatters article, The Beauty of Free, is up and ready for reading:

I love free stuff. I don’t mean free as in all the PC software available for free that slows down WinXP machines with tons and tons of SpyWare, but free in the sense of nice free productivity-increasing products available for OS X. And, now that Apple will soon have iLife, iWork, and Tiger out on the shelves of the local Apple Store taunting me during each day that passes in which I do not purchase them, I need to start saving up. There’s a tipping point coming where it will be a better move to buy a Mac mini with iLife ‘05 and Tiger included, but we’re not quite there yet, so I need to focus on what I love most and can afford: the freeware available for OS X.

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