I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
I think Movable Type is a really good product for certain applications.
If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed - Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.
VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
