Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 75.69.85.120]
on January 25, 2008 11:59 AM
There are other closed source applications for photography and scanning that are not that expensive, and are wonderful to use, and are written for LINUX. There is a value!
As the projects that don't get maintained are not worth that much, paying someone a little (not a company but a person) for the value of a maintained product, is like giving them a donation. I look at a software product that is proprietary and think of it as a donation, the same as when I buy music cd at a concert of blue grass artists that I *know* need the money and that the record company is not making money from. Microsoft, the price that they charge, just to charge you over and over and over again, for the same thing, well - I just don't like to pay them anything. However, these folks that have labored by themselves for years to get a software to do what they want it to do... for a purpose (usually to satisfy their own need for a software that does something), well, Hey I will pay them a few bucks (no problems mate).
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 75.69.85.120] on January 25, 2008 11:59 AMAs the projects that don't get maintained are not worth that much, paying someone a little (not a company but a person) for the value of a maintained product, is like giving them a donation. I look at a software product that is proprietary and think of it as a donation, the same as when I buy music cd at a concert of blue grass artists that I *know* need the money and that the record company is not making money from. Microsoft, the price that they charge, just to charge you over and over and over again, for the same thing, well - I just don't like to pay them anything. However, these folks that have labored by themselves for years to get a software to do what they want it to do... for a purpose (usually to satisfy their own need for a software that does something), well, Hey I will pay them a few bucks (no problems mate).
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