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Posted by On the Road to Damascus on 05/19/07 06:58
On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:55:26 GMT, "gavin"
<theslider@cosmicdancer.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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>"NRen2k5" <nomore@email.com> wrote in message
>news:WJZ2i.17207$ba5.21991@weber.videotron.net...
>> 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.
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>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.
>
Sometimes you can actually do more with freeware. Sometimes not.
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