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Re: is free, open source software ethical?

by Joachim Durchholz <jo@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mar 6, 2008 at 09:17 AM

Am Donnerstag, den 06.03.2008, 00:58 -0600 schrieb Mark VandeWettering:
> In no particular order:
> 
> 1. It's not clear to me that open source or Free Software has really
>    delivered the kinds of applications that "users" need.  Is there
really
>    an open source application that can compete with Photoshop?

Yes (Gimp: it recently acquired color management).

>   With Final Cut?

Dunno, I don't know the application.

>   With Excel?  

Yes, OpenOffice Calc works well.
It does not have VBA, so moving from Excel to Calc is a major pain if
you have a lot of homegrown macros, but macroless sheets can be
converted quite smoothly.

Regards,
Jo




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Re: is free, open source software ethical?
Joachim Durchholz <jo@  2008-03-06 09:17:18 
Re: is free, open source software ethical?
Damien Wyart <damien.w  2008-03-06 11:45:58 
Re: is free, open source software ethical?
Jon Harrop <usenet@[EM  2008-03-06 13:37:54 
Re: is free, open source software ethical?
Joachim Durchholz <jo@  2008-03-06 20:54:17 
Re: is free, open source software ethical?
Jon Harrop <usenet@[EM  2008-03-07 11:06:53 
Re: is free, open source software ethical?
Jon Harrop <usenet@[EM  2008-03-07 11:20:21 
Re: is free, open source software ethical?
Joachim Durchholz <jo@  2008-03-07 19:41:52 

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