🚀 go-pugleaf

I just purchased an OpenStep User CD from a friend of mine for quite a
bit of money, more than I would have liked to pay.  I love the
software, but I wish that I still had the money I spent on it.  I know
where NS/OS is available for illegal download, but I decided to go the
legal route.

I realize that much of OpenStep is the intellectual property of other
companies, but I have a proposal to make.  Why doesn't Apple give
OpenStep away for free to Mac OS X owners like myself?  Apple already
gives away the dev tools for Mac OS X (almost the same dev tools as
OpenStep, from what I can tell from OpenStep screenshots); why
shouldn't it do the same for OpenStep owners?  The Apple compiler is
based off of GCC, and other Apple stuff is based off of BSD (now
released for free as Darwin).  I realize that some of the OS belongs
to other companies, but doesn't Mac OS X have almost the same Display
Postscript (now called Quartz) as NS/OS?  Aren't the applications that
NeXT wrote (Mail.app, Edit.app) now included with Mac OS X?  Since I
have already paid Apple for just about everything included in
OpenStep, why shouldn't I get OpenStep for free?

Somebody should write a petition on PetitionOnline to Apple to release
OpenStep as freeware for all those who legally own Mac OS X.