2009/4/1 Richard Hayes <n...@nada.com.au>: > Why do they think the software is 'worth' anything?? > > How to save $25 Million dollars use OpenOffice, GIMP, Paint.net, Blender > ???, Picsa, Canvas??, Bluefish etc.
Sorry, but some of this stuff just isn't up to scratch. GIMP and Inkscape can't do CMYK, which has caused me difficulties when it comes to getting stuff printed properly. CMYK is the industry standard for print jobs and GIMP and Inkscape are the leading open source apps in their class. I was trying to use (admittedly an older version) of NeoOffice on my Mac and after eating 1.2GB of RAM (the system has 1GB) for a simple 13 slide presentation it then died when I tried to change a font colour. I went out and bought Office so I could make my presentation deadline. I sit here typing this on my Ubuntu 8.10 setup. I have to kill Firefox on a regular basis, pulseaudio occasionally needs a kill -9. I prefer Linux for most things, but some stuff just isn't up to scratch and for that I go to Mac, whose interface I find inferior to Linux and Windows, but at least it's relatively stable and runs the apps that get stuff done. If you want to campaign for open source, then probably try to get some government money thrown towards open source development, rather than try to push things that are inferior to the other market offerings. > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
