Archive for May, 2007
Free lunches exist…
by schwim on May.29, 2007, under Software
If you’re willing to forego the extended customer support for your sandwich.
If you own a computer, you’ve paid money, and usually a lot of money to Microsoft. They are likely the company that is providing the operating system you use, your office productivity software, mail clients, browsers and a majority of the rest of the software on your computer.
The majority of the people using this software don’t care. To be completely honest, I’m fine with that. I don’t want to strengthen a revolution or bring to light a percieved injustice. I do however want to talk to the person who thinks hundreds of dollars for an Office Suite is too much, and tell him that there is an alternative. In fact, there is an alternative to practically any application you can dream up. Here’s some examples just to get your noggin smoking: (continue reading…)
