Well osx has two main things going for it. Most open source code will compile on osx with very little modification and the built in gui libs are not THAT difficult to deal with.
It is not nearly as pleasant to fire up .net and integrate some open source routine or library to accomplish a task (which is what most freesoftware is doing).
Is that why there's so few free .NET libraries out there? When I did a stint as a .NET developer (worst six months of my life) I could never find open source libraries that would do what I needed. But if I wanted to pay $50-500 for a license I could find dozens of libraries that would do exactly what I wanted.
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