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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 :) 





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From: anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>
To: Tom <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
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 <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>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 :)

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*From:* anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>
*To:* users@global.libreoffice.org
*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



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