Open source development isn't "supposed" to be about anything. It is whatever its developers and users make of it, and it exists for whatever arbitrary reasons its developers and users attach to it.
As for whether the world needs a clone of Photoshop or MS Office -- I need them, because neither of those applications run on my computer. If you use Linux, you don't even have the option of running MS Office or Photoshop -- not natively, at least.
From where I'm sitting, at a notebook running Ubuntu, that's a pretty darned good reason for being.
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Yes, except without requiring identical hardware.
Why not store your Word documents on some random ISP's computer in encrypted form?
Open source development isn't "supposed" to be about anything. It is whatever its developers and users make of it, and it exists for whatever arbitrary reasons its developers and users attach to it.
As for whether the world needs a clone of Photoshop or MS Office -- I need them, because neither of those applications run on my computer. If you use Linux, you don't even have the option of running MS Office or Photoshop -- not natively, at least.
From where I'm sitting, at a notebook running Ubuntu, that's a pretty darned good reason for being.
I believe that Frozen Bubble is a clone of the non-free game Snood.
https://appleseed.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SeedPortal.woa/wa/faq
OR, there's:
http://developer.apple.com/products/select.htmlHey, David Berlind doesn't write for Ziff Davis. He works for CNet.