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skyman8081:
No. Stop building strawmen.
I am saying that in my personal experience, there is a tendency for proprietary software to be of a higher quality than open source programs.
What is so hard about that. That my experience isn't true?
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: skyman8081 ---I am saying that in my personal experience, there is a tendency for proprietary software to be of a higher quality than open source programs.
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First time I heard that.
--- Quote ---What is so hard about that. That my experience isn't true?
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I'm not complaining.
I added a few sentences to my last post (in this thread), to make it's point clear.
piratePenguin:
Care to answer my and worker201's question about the laziness of free software developers now skyman?
WMD:
--- Quote from: skyman8081 ---Okay, Photoshop and the GIMP. Cinelerra and AVID Media Composer. iTunes and xmms. GAIM and Trillian. Audacity and Sound Forge.
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Most of that stuff is software that's harder to develop. Image editors, video editors, audio editors...tough stuff. The early versions of those proprietary ones sucked as well. And of those, Cinelerra is the only one I would say really sucks.
As for the rest...iTunes and xmms have different priorities...and I don't find iTunes to be that great a program anyway. My dad, not computer savvy, likes Winamp much more than iTunes. I'd like it more to compare xmms and Winamp.
Gaim and Trillian...funny, I've used both and find Gaim much better.
worker201:
--- Quote from: WMD ---iTunes and xmms have different priorities...and I don't find iTunes to be that great a program anyway. My dad, not computer savvy, likes Winamp much more than iTunes. I'd like it more to compare xmms and Winamp.
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Well said. Of course Winamp wins hands down for skins. But xmms is a small fast awesome program.
Btw, if anyone thinks anyone is being somehow hurt for using open source, they are wrong. People who choose open source do so for personal reasons. I kinda like reporting errors to [email protected] when my command-line video encoder goes splat. Does that make me wrong in some way? NO. Open source software has its purposes, its benefits, and its proponents.
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