Hi :) Despite the similarities in the name Freeware is VERY different from Free Software.
Free Software follows a very demanding set of engineering principles and the unix principles that ensures security and ensures that the program is robust on a wide range of platforms and on a vast range of hardware. It's usually OpenSource so anyone can be involved in helping with the coding as long as their edits are up to the standards required. Even normal users can get involved and sometimes see results of bug-reports they write. It's easy to get a copy of the source code and read through it so people get embarrased if/when they write something kludgy or even inelegant. Elegant coding gets seen and admired. The aims of Free Software are to liberate people from the traps people fall into such as vendor lock-ins. One of the unix principles is that programs need to be able co-operate with other programs (in our case such as back-ends, calendars, email programs and if you plug pretty much any camera in then LO can probably use it) Freeware is just stuff that doesn't cost anything. They are almost always proprietary and often only have 1 or 2 devs and they might lose interest or just not maintain it. All the problems of proprietary stuff except none of the cash to help with any of it's problems. There are some great people doing some amazing stuff this way but it's like building a house-of-cards. The 2nd link shows something that looks a lot like Gimp. Except that it boasts about having other separate apps in it's suite for different tasks. Gimp does most of those tasks inside the main program or has add-ons that add the functionality in. Also the Gimp interface ahs changed because people didn't like all those separated floating windows/consoles/taskbars/iconbars Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Monday, 28 January 2013, 17:28 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] couple interesting - - sites ... > > ... for you to peruse - or not ;-) > > what are your thoughts on this - > >http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/hardware-secrets-uncomplicating-complicated-website-week.htm > > and could this enhance IMPRESS - > http://www.jpchacha.com/chasysdraw/index.php > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
