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Mac?  by Matthew Russell  This overview of Mac applications
could keep even the most dedicated software enthusiast busy for
days. Some of them are proprietary, such as iTunes; others are
pure open source. So how does Apple's software, and that of
other proprietary companies such as Adobe, compare to their open
source counterparts? Matthew Russell gets the conversation
rolling with this extensive collection, and even assigns grades
for overall categories. We know there are great apps that aren't
on this list and hope that you will add the ones (in the
Comments section) that you think are important. Try to include
URLs if possible. So with no further delay, let's get going.
Recently on the O'Reilly Radar, it was noted that several well-
known Mac folks are switching to Ubuntu Linux. One of them, Mark
Pilgrim, directly juxtaposed several of Apple's stock apps to
open source software (OSS) a