Richard Forth wrote: > The one thing that will need some mastery is the video editting, it is > not as intuitive and user friendly as the Windows couterpart, > Cyberlink PowerProducer, but considering I could do the above with GNU > software at all (which I had my doubt about before I started) I am > suitably impressed and will endeavour to persist with Kino until I get > the results I want.
There seems to be a common perception that FOSS software is amazingly good for its price (obviously not as good as proprietary software but not bad considering). I think we should be trying to counter that perception. A number of times I've heard that OOo is ok as long as you don't need anything complicated, otherwise you need MS Office; in my experience there are plenty of things I rely on in OOo that MS Office simply cannot do. Of-course we all know of plenty of examples of good FOSS (and no doubt good proprietary software). I mean, Linux vs Windows for starters!! Or, Firefox vs IE, bash vs command.com, etc... The weaker FOSS apps I've seen tend to be weaker due to the user interface. Presumably this is an area that "people like us" could get involved in, and it made me wonder if there is a project we should try to get involved with as a LUG. Eg one which many of us use but could do with better documentation that we could contribute to, or beta versions which need proper testing, etc. Any suggestions? Finding one that some of us have the ability to contribute to (and that others can learn from) is the key. After all, it is true in some cases (but not as a generalisation) that some FOSS applications are not as polished as commercial alternatives, but ultimately that's down to "us" (the community) to fix. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
