CAAST and FLOSS - Acronym Wars

CAAST and FLOSS - Acronym Wars

> Of the two photo management software packages you mention, one links to
> a 404 page (flphoto), and the other links to a package that expects the
> developer to fetch the package from CVS, then compile & build.

Try GPhoto.

As for the quality of Freshmeat software, Freshmeat was another bad choice.
Most people get their Free Software on a CD from organisations like Debian and Mandrake. Debian GNU/Linux ships with two production quality desktop suites, three office suites (including OpenOffice), the GNU development tool chain, Apache webserver, Sendmail and exim mailservers, and a long list of enjoyable games.

...and all available for the VAT inclusive price of $0 (or 0 euro, 0 yen etc.)

> Most software users neither know nor care how the software gets the
> job done - it is a tool; a means to an end, nothing more.

Ah, the quality lie of proprietary software vendors. The motivation for writing non-Free software is generally to make money. Thus a game begins: How much money can we squeeze out of the user without losing them? How arkward can we make it for the user if they don't upgrade?

On the Free Software side, there is no point in making a program any less usable. The whole point is to make it as enjoyable and functional as possible so that more people can live in a freer society. The person recieving a piece of software is a user, part of the community, not a customer/source-of-money.

You say software is just a tool, Free Software makes useful, Free tools

Ciaran O'Riordan