Posted by gavin on 05/18/07 16:55

"NRen2k5" <nomore@email.com> wrote in message
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> gavin wrote:
>> "Useful Info" <useful_inf@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:1179312984.881491.160150@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>>> Police state rising... Read all about it, here: http://Muvy.org
>>
>> As far as software is concerned, since discovering this newsgroup I'm
>> surprised that anyone would bother downloading illegal software - it
>> seems to me that there is a free (and usually excellent) alternative
>> to just about every application!
>
> Not really. While GIMP is nice for quick resize jobs, etc. it really
> doesn't compare to a photo editing app like Photoshop. Likewise (as far
> as I know) there are no freeware CAD programs that even come close to
> AutoCAD.

Yes, really! "Power users" of any given application might have the same
argument as you but "most" applications (I hate generalising!) in my
experience are full of features that "average users" (the majority?) never
need. And so a nice lean fast freeware application is usually just the
ticket for "average" me.

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