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From the article: "One of the biggest problems with this approach, other than the fact they just pissed off a lot of people who beleive strongly in OSS, is that Growl is still broken. So you pay your $1.99 and it no workie. <samuel:jackson>TESTING MOTHER FUCKERS, DO YOU DO IT?</samuel:jackson>"

I happily paid for Growl from the App store, and sure enough it works fine on both my Lion Macs.

http://growl.info/documentation/developer/growl-source-insta... has instructions on how to Build 1.3 from source.

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There don't seem to be publicly visible commits after the 1.3 release, though. Compare http://growl.info/documentation/version_history.php with http://code.google.com/p/growl/source/list : the source of version 1.3.1, which includes some important-sounding bugfixes, is nowhere to be found.

http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss/msg/0793d15920fa...

The 1.3 SDK also added Mist[0], which means software does not have to install Growl itself (and the user does not need Growl) to get Growl notifications.

The Growl application itself (from the AppStore) essentially becomes a "Growl Pro", offering users more (and centralized) control over notifications display.

[0] http://growl.info/documentation/developer/implementing-growl...

"other than the fact they just pissed off a lot of people who beleive strongly in OSS"

If they believe so strongly in OSS, they wouldn't use macintosh would they? Nope they don't want to pony up and take out their wallets.

If you want to develop for iOS you have to use a Mac.

Technically not true. If you want to publish for iOS you have to use a Mac, and there's an exception to that (PhoneGap Build).

no, you don't. You can use a VM

You can’t legally run OS X under VM, unless the host is OS X on Apple’s hardware as well (and I think even that is only for server edition).

Do note that those laws don't apply to the entire world.

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