MacLibre, a rigorous selection of free, legal software for Mac OS X. MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X developed during the Google Summer of Code program mentored by the WinLibre project.
This project is developed under the GPL public license.
Featured applications:
Create
• Audacity
• Blender
• Gimp
• Inkscape
Internet
• Adium
• Colloquy
• Cyberduck
• Fire
• Firefox
• Nvu
• Thunderbird
• Vienna
Multimedia
• HandBrake
• MPlayer
• VLC
Office
• AbiWord
• NeoOffice
Utilities
• ClamXav
• DesktopManager
• iTerm
• VirtueDesktops
• X11
More info and download link here.
[UPDATE: 10:42am EDT: Changed headline as per request below.]
Could you change the title so that this doesn’t look like an article that only lawyers would be interested in?
(“Legal software” to me doesn’t mean “legally purchased”, it means software relating to lawyers, judges and transcriptionists).
“MacLibre 2 released: free, legal software collection for Mac OS X”
= Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
“MacLibre 2 released: free, Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X”
…that looks like something I’d actually read about…
In fact I read the page by accident…I dragged the link to a tab and it loaded just as I realized I didn’t care, if it was about “legal software”.
Then I saw “Blender” and I was like “wth does a lawyer want a 3D app for”?
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@ianal: Almost all users needs app for accessing case law, client billing, and the really nifty app called iAmbulanceChase.
Probably also the reason this page has no comments…
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The site’s down.
Here’s another list of open source software for Mac. It seems like it lists the same software.
http://www.opensourcemac.org/
You might like to look at my site too:
http://web.mac.com/simon_elliott/iWeb/simon_elliott@mac.com/Software.html
What we really need is an alternative to Fireworks that does not need X11.
I wasn’t going to post here, but then I saw the MDN word and had to.
MDN word = “law”
“legal software”
An new iApp called iBail could come in iHandy at just the right iTime. Stuck in a holding cell? Pull up iBail on your iPod and you’ll iBond out before iMorning.
What is the point of this?
It seems to me that all it is, is a download manager for certain specified apps.
I have no experience with it, never heard of it, but it raises red flags with me.
There’s a special version for the Miami MUG called MacCubaLibre.
Thanks Simon Elliott!
MacLibre could learn something from you about packaging.
Awww… I was hoping for legal software. 🙁
Ampar,
Does that come with the customary wedge of lime?
Bloke: Yes, but no cigar. And it’s only legal if you open it with both feet planted firmly on the beach.
On my 17″ Intel iMac, most of the icons across the top of the page in AbiWord are unreadable.
Has anyone else experienced this?
That’s okay. iDon’t smoke. But, I do like salsa — with Cilantro!
WARNING!!
This application downloader requires your administrative password regardless of what you download.
My advice is to research the original sources of these apps, download from the makers sites and if it requires your adminstrative password, to pass.
The open source community is great, but they have had their fair share of application exploits, just like commercial vendors. If one gives a app elevated access, a unpublished exploit could compromise the security of your machine.
In Apple you should trust, very few other apps really need your admin password.
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70802-0.html?tw=rss.technology
Free OpenSource Software Mac User Group
http://www.freesmug.org/