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Alternatives that the author missed

Posted Jul 11, 2008 22:05 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Alternatives that the author missed by michaeljt
Parent article: Ubuntu Photo Manager Experiment (Ubuntu Productivity)

How is it different from non-free OSes? Do they provide any application search facility that free software doesn't have? I, for one, find it much easier to evaluate free software, as I won't end up for a piece of programmatic crap that would "expire" after 30 days or annoy me with warnings every time I run it.


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Alternatives that the author missed

Posted Jul 14, 2008 7:29 UTC (Mon) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

I quite agree if you are at the stage of looking for an application.  But if you are already
using a proprietary OS and an application which does what you want it to, it can be a barrier
to switching, even if you would like to for other reasons.

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