Hi :) Thanks Anne :) There are a lot of people in here that know a lot more about this than me. I just happened to look up the unix principles the other day. Thanks and regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: anne-ology <[email protected]> >To: Tom <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, 28 January 2013, 20:39 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] couple interesting - - sites ... > > Wow, you continue to amaze me with your knowledge of these machines, >et.al. > as well as your ability to express yourself. > > > >On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]>wrote: > >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 <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *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: [email protected] >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: [email protected] 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
