[K12OSN] Software to do X

norbert bear2bar at netscape.net
Sun Nov 21 16:57:31 UTC 2004


les at futuresource.com wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 03:31, Gavin Chester wrote:
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>>I've been checking out that link you gave, Jeff.  Other than it being a
>>little dated (only some inconsequential aspects would have changed in
>>since last update) it is a beauty.  I'll pass it on to my M$Windows
>>friends who always ask "what would I use in linux instead of xxxx".
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>One difference in the free and commercial packages is that often
>the commercial ones will come with a ton of samples, examples, 
>templates, icons, themes, etc. where the free ones tend to be bare
>bones. Often the free program is just as capable or more so but it
>feels harder to use at first because you can't pick a theme and have a
>lot of the work already done.  Some of these might make good class
>projects or contests with the results donated back to become part
>of the package or accumulated somewhere for others to use.
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>  Les Mikesell
>   les at futuresource.com
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Hi Les,

Great suggestion !! What if we setup a "contest" for schools or colleges 
to create samples & templates for some of the popular OSS aplications?

norbert
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